Photograph of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft (tail number 483411) parked at Komaki Air Base, Japan, April 1947. The tail bears the emblem of the Fifth Air Force, United States Army Air Forces. The inscription notes that the plane belonged to…
Photograph of a Stinson L-5 Sentinel aircraft crashed upside down on a beach near Nagoya, Japan, August 1947. The plane bears United States Army Air Forces markings.Inscription on verso: "The L-5 the Infantry cracked up in the river bottom. Nagoya,…
Photograph of two men, likely Lloyd R. Lyckman (right) and Louis L. McCoy (left), standing outside a civic information center building in Nagoya, Japan, circa 1945-1952.
Inscription on verso: "To my good friend M/Sgt. Lyckman. Louis L. McCoy,…
Photograph of concrete hangars at Komaki Air Base, Japan, January 30, 1947. The inscription notes that the hangars, originally used by the Japanese military during World War II to store Mitsubishi A6M Reisen "Zero" aircraft, were used by the 158th…
Photograph of a Buddhist statue at a temple near Nagoya, Japan, March 1947.Inscription on verso: "Buddha shrine 20 miles south of Nagoya, Japan. March 1947."
Photograph of Mount Fuji (Japan) taken from a Stinson L-5 Sentinel aircraft, April 1947. Part of the plane's wing is visible.Inscription on verso: "Mt. Fujiyama taken in front of left wing on my L-5. Nagoya, Japan. April 1947."
Photograph of Captain Townsend (right) and Sergeant Keifer (left) at an unidentified air base in Japan, April 1947. The plane behind them is a Stinson L-5 Sentinel of the United States Army Air Forces. Mount Fuji is visible in the…