Post your WW2 Pacific & Asian War photos

[Peter H]

From Jerry Scutts' War in the Pacific.

Air attacks

[Peter H]

Fog--Mars Force Burma 1944

[Peter H]

Big men,small car.

Members of the 11th Airborne Division land in Japan,August 1945.

From Militaria Magazine ,February 1994.

[Peter H]

From Time-Life.

More of the 11th Airborne first into Japan

[Peter H]

From Time-Life

Surrendering sword

[Dan W.]

Great post war pictures there Peter.

[alexWong]

Here are some pix of the heroic resistance of Chinese soldiers against the Japanese invaders

[Peter H]

From Time-Life.

Not Winston Churchill but Admiral Shafroth offshore Japan:

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jfshafrothhr.htm


I think this photo was taken on USS Missouri,September 1945.

Note the framed flag behind him--Commodore Perry's flag from 1853:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_C._Perry

The original flag was brought to Japan for the Japan surrender ceremony and was displayed on that occasion at the request of Douglas MacArthur, who was himself a blood-relative of Perry. MacArthur had perhaps seen himself as a second benign "opener" of Japan. Some photographs of the signing ceremony show that this flag was actually displayed backward—reverse side showing (stars in the upper right corner). The cloth of the historic flag was so fragile that the conservator at the Naval Academy Museum directed that a protective backing be sewn on it, leaving its "wrong side" visible; and this was how Perry's 31-star flag was presented on this unique occasion.

[Peter H]

From The Pacific War ,West & Mattson.

Chinese colonists on Mindanao,Philippines welcome US forces 1945.Like most of the Chinese in SE Asia they had had a hard time under the Japanese.

[Peter H]

From War in the Pacific.

Marines at Roi-Namur,February 1944.Note helmet being worn backwards.

[Graeme Sydney]

From War in the Pacific.

Marines at Roi-Namur,February 1944.Note helmet being worn backwards.

I have never seen that before. Musta been for better vision when lying prone.

[Peter H]

There is also a famous Tarawa photo of a helmet being worn backwards.i think this Marine was a machine gunner as well.

[Peter H]

Another close up Tarawa photo.Dead Japanese SNLF--how one fired a rifle with one's toe.

From ebay,cannot remember seller.

[Peter H]

From Harlan Glenn's United states Marine Corps:Uniforms,Insignia...

Peleliu stretcher bearers

[Peter H]

From Harlan Glenn again.Rigid in death position.