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What happens to a modern metropolis when under air bombardment can be gauged from this new photograph of a section of Tokyo. The Japanese capital was (...)
What happens to a modern metropolis when under air bombardment can be gauged from this new photograph of a section of Tokyo. The Japanese capital was (...)

What happens to a modern metropolis when under air bombardment can be gauged from this new photograph of a section of Tokyo. The Japanese capital was (...)

Date9/5/1945
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Original Toronto Star caption: What happens to a modern metropolis when under air bombardment can be gauged from this new photograph of a section of Tokyo. The Japanese capital was the world's third largest city but it was no match for the overwhelming might of Allied air power. Shell of building here; behind that wreckage; was a radio station
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019467F
The Conquerors, Gen. Mac Arthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz, are seen centre after boarding U.S.S. Missouri to accept formal Japanese surrender on the ship in Tokyo Bay
The Conquerors, Gen. Mac Arthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz, are seen centre after boarding U.S.S. Missouri to accept formal Japanese surrender on the ship in Tokyo Bay
9/4/1945
Seen from the air, this section of the Rhone river at Tarascon in south France reveals the crippling effect of Allied air power. The wrecked bridges w(...)
Seen from the air, this section of the Rhone river at Tarascon in south France reveals the crippling effect of Allied air power. The wrecked bridges w(...)
9/11/1944
First G.I. to enter Tokyo, Pte. Paul E. Davis. 24, Fairland, Okla., left, gets a handshake from Maj.-Gen. W. C. Chase
First G.I. to enter Tokyo, Pte. Paul E. Davis. 24, Fairland, Okla., left, gets a handshake from Maj.-Gen. W. C. Chase
9/12/1945
An unidentified allied soldier is shown here sharing his cigarettes with four members of the imperial palace guard at Tokyo
An unidentified allied soldier is shown here sharing his cigarettes with four members of the imperial palace guard at Tokyo
9/6/1945
When 130 Japanese rioted in the immigration building of Vancouver refusing to go to an Ontario road camp, they regretted it two ways. They were told t(...)
When 130 Japanese rioted in the immigration building of Vancouver refusing to go to an Ontario road camp, they regretted it two ways. They were told t(...)
5/19/1942
The fastest men are also the safest men once they have learned to dive quickly into foxholes when Japanese bombers appear
The fastest men are also the safest men once they have learned to dive quickly into foxholes when Japanese bombers appear
11/13/1943
Big Fish in the Allied war crime net, Nobosuke Kishi, Japanese cabinet member ime of Pearl Harbor, sits with his belongings awaiting removal from his jail cell [Incomplete]
Big Fish in the Allied war crime net, Nobosuke Kishi, Japanese cabinet member ime of Pearl Harbor, sits with his belongings awaiting removal from his jail cell [Incomplete]
10/19/1945
A blazing inferno from raging fires touched off by three torpedo hits from a Japanese submarine is the U
A blazing inferno from raging fires touched off by three torpedo hits from a Japanese submarine is the U
10/29/1942
Wrecked axis ships, pounded from the air and sea, littered Bengazi harbor when General Alexander's Eighty Army arrived close behind the retreating Ger(...)
Wrecked axis ships, pounded from the air and sea, littered Bengazi harbor when General Alexander's Eighty Army arrived close behind the retreating Ger(...)
1/30/1943
In Schreiber, Ont., the residents are getting ready for Japanese nationals evacuated from the British Columbia coast. This is one of the residents of (...)
In Schreiber, Ont., the residents are getting ready for Japanese nationals evacuated from the British Columbia coast. This is one of the residents of (...)
3/27/1942
Not only Were These Japanese born in Canada and are Canadian citizens, but they are thoroughly Canadian in their pleasures. Coming from the coast by t(...)
Not only Were These Japanese born in Canada and are Canadian citizens, but they are thoroughly Canadian in their pleasures. Coming from the coast by t(...)
4/2/1942
Aircraftman Atkins, Tail-end Charlie-that's what Clifford Atkins hopes to be after finishing his air gunner's course with the R.C.A.F
Aircraftman Atkins, Tail-end Charlie-that's what Clifford Atkins hopes to be after finishing his air gunner's course with the R.C.A.F
3/25/1941