GUAM 1945-08-15. JAPANESE POWS BOW THEIR HEADS AS THEY PREPARE TO HEAR THE BROADCAST WORDS OF EMPEROR HIROHITO DESCRIBING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM 1945-08-15. CRYING UNASHAMEDLY, A JAPANESE POW HAS JUST HEARD A BROADCAST BY EMPEROR HIROHITO ANNOUNCING JAPAN'S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

BUKAWA, HUON GULF, NEW GUINEA. 1944-12-14. THE YOUNG MEN OF A VILLAGE EAST OF LAE VISITED BY 43 LANDING CRAFT COMPANY MEMBERS SLEEP IN THIS HUT. THE PAINTINGS AND CARVINGS ON THE SIDE OF THE HUT ..

Guam. 1945-08-15. Japanese prisoners of war (POW), bow their heads and remove their hats in reverence for Emperor Hirohito, as they stand behind a barbed wire fence of a POW camp, to hear the radio ..

GUAM. 1945. AT AGANA AIR TERMINAL TWO AMERICAN SOLDIERS GATHER THEIR BAGGAGE AS TRANSPORTATION ARRIVES TO TAKE THEM TO THEIR UNIT ON GUAM. ANOTHER SOLDIER SITS NEARBY AWAITING TRANSPOTATION OR ..

OROTE POINT, GUAM. 1945. OROTE AIRFIELD'S RUNWAY IS SURROUNDED BY A CITY OF STRICTLY FUNTIONAL QUONSET HUTS, WORKSHOPS, TENTS AND STORES DUMPS. THERE ARE OVER 200 AIRCRAFT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH AND ..

GUAM. AERIAL VIEW OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES' PACIFIC FLEET (CINCPAC), ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ. NIMITZ'S RESIDENCE WAS IN THE HOUSE INSIDE THE LOOP ROAD AT ..

GUAM. 1945-06-07. FLEET ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ USN, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, US PACIFIC FLEET AND PACIFIC OCEAN AREAS, SIGNING AN AUTOGRAPH. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM. C.1945. A JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR WAITS FOR INTERROGATION BY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS. HE IS CLOSELY GUARDED BY A US MARINE ARMED WITH AN M1 CARBINE. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM. 1945-05. THE DESTROYER MINELAYER USS LINDSEY IN DRY DOCK SHOWING THE HEAVY DAMAGE INCURRED WHEN HER BOW BACK TO NO 1 GUN MOUNTING WAS BLOWN OFF AFTER SHE WAS HIT BY TWO KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT NEAR ..

GUAM. 1945-05. THE DESTROYER MINELAYER USS LINDSEY IN DRY DOCK SHOWING THE HEAVY DAMAGE INCURRED WHEN HER BOW BACK TO NO 1 GUN MOUNTING WAS BLOWN OFF AFTER SHE WAS HIT BY TWO KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT NEAR ..

Vue de la Casa-Real a Umata, Ile de Guam / de Sainson pinxt.; J. Bertrand lith