Just weeks later, on September 2, aboard the battleship USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, Fleet Admiral Nimitz signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the United States. The prints created by Stars and Stripes Pacific’s photo department to run in the print newspaper are the only images left of Stripes’ news photography from those early decades. The two atomic attacks on Japan in August 1945 forced them to admit defeat. Few of our own images from that war survived as all pre-1964 Stars and Stripes Pacific negatives and slides were unwittingly destroyed by poor temporary storage in 1963.

Many of the news photo prints in our archives do not have exact date and place information included and information is gathered through notes from the photo department scribbled on the back of the print, articles the image ran with and independent research into the subject matter.Īlthough we prioritize the preservation and scanning of our own material, given their historic importance we made an exception for the images in our collection of the Korean War taken by these military photographers. 11, 1951 - read “En route to Japan from Korea aboard an evacuation transport, a Republic of Korea nurse, injured herself, aids in the care of a wounded ROK soldier.”Įven though we do not know exactly when and where the image was taken, the accompanying article notes the the flight was part of the air evacuations of United Nations wounded by the 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) aircraft of the Fair East Air Forces. Air Force photographer and published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Sept. Somewhere in South Korea, September 1951: The original caption of this image - captured by an unknown U.S.

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