Destruction along the waterfront, Japan

Gift of Ralph F. Feuchter, Jr.
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Photograph, aerial. Destruction along a Japanese waterfront. Personal caption on photo reverse: "Tokyo waterfront showing Jap [Japanese] sampans (large and small)." Official caption: "Released. If published credit must be given as follows 'Official Photograph U.S. Navy.' " Tokyo, Japan. 1945

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1945
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Collection consists of fifty-two official issue USN photographs which were declassified after the war. They were given to Ralph "Dutch" Feuchter by G.B. Hoagland, his first cousin, who served on the aircraft carrier from which many of them were taken. Hoagland was a photographer, but did not take these photographs.
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Tōkyō
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35.750
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139.500