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Japanese battleship Yamashiro moored off Yokosuka, Japan, 4 July 1917. She initially patrolled off the coast of China, playing no part in World War I. In 1923, she assisted survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake.
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Japanese battleship Yamashiro moored off Yokosuka, Japan, 4 July 1917. She initially patrolled off the coast of China, playing no part in World War I. In 1923, she assisted survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake.

u/defender838383 — 17 hours ago
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Korean Independence activist Yun Bong-gil moments before his execution by firing squad in Kanazawa, Japan, on 19 December 1932. He was sentenced to death for carrying out the Hongkou Park bombing, which killed two senior Japanese officials.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 1 day ago
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A Japanese Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" carrier-based bomber from the aircraft carrier Hiryu flies over the American airfield Hickam on the island of Oahu. This photo was taken on December 7, 1941, at 9:20 a.m., during the second wave of the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor

u/defender838383 — 1 day ago
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Japanese troops posing with a captured American P-35A of 34th Pursuit Squadron following the fall of the Philippines. May 1942.

u/waffen123 — 1 day ago
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A Japanese Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu night fighter (屠龍, Ki-45 Toryu) captured by the Americans at an airfield. The Allies codenamed the Ki-45 "Nick." 1945

u/defender838383 — 2 days ago
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A Japanese J2M3 "Raiden" fighter captured by the Americans during a test flight. The aircraft already bears American markings. 1945

u/defender838383 — 3 days ago
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(Left to right) A young Captain Yamamoto Isoroku, who was Japanese naval attaché in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, another Japanese naval officer, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of U.S. naval operations, Feb. 17, 1926.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 4 days ago
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Naval aviator Lieutenant Zenji Abe mans a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter on the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi. Late 1941 – early 1942.

u/defender838383 — 4 days ago
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Japanese soldiers fill the wing tanks of a Nakajima A6M2-N floatplane, known to American pilots as the "Rufe." The "Rufe" was a floatplane version of the carrier-based Zero fighter

u/defender838383 — 5 days ago
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Two Marines with a captured .50 calibre Japanese machine gun at Japanese planes during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.

u/defender838383 — 5 days ago
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Group portrait of Kempeitai officers in Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies. The men were recognizable by the white armband bearing the word Kempeitai in Japanese characters.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 5 days ago
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Japanese pilot bails out after his aircraft is destroyed by anti-aircraft fire near USS Randolph. April 1945

u/Beeninya — 6 days ago
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Imperial Japanese Navy warships under attack by U.S. aircraft. Philippine Sea, 1944.

u/Beeninya — 7 days ago
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Old family photo album from WWII has this Japanese ID from Saipan in it. Japanese family member translated it below. Any unit information would be interesting to know.

① No 31

② ID card

③ Botanko Manchuria Unit 2686

④ Army Private First Class
Harada Masayoshi

⑤ Age 33 years old

⑥ Born in Taisho 1, October 21

⑦ I hereby certify that the right is true and correct

⑧ Showa 9th January 10

⑨ Manchuria Unit 2686 Troop Nakao

u/Altruistic-Dream7853 — 6 days ago