Japanese surrender on Iejima, Ryukyu, August 1945
Gift of Ralph F. Feuchter, Jr.
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American troops watch as a specially marked Mitsubishi G4M-1 "Betty" aircraft lands during the Japanese surrender on Iejima. Personal caption: "Japanese peace mission plane (Betty) Aug. 1944 [sic]." Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands. 19 August 1945.
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08/19/1945
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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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Iō-shima
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Surrenders--Japanese--Ryukyu Islands