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USA / Japan: US Navy sailors of Task Force 58, Fast Carrier Task Force, aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier fire Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns at Japanese aircraft while the carriers own planes are raiding Tokyo. Off Tokyo Bay,16 February 1945
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Title:
USA / Japan: US Navy sailors of Task Force 58, Fast Carrier Task Force, aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier fire Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns at Japanese aircraft while the carriers own planes are raiding Tokyo. Off Tokyo Bay,16 February 1945
Caption:
On December 78, 1941, Japanese forces carried out surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, attacks on British forces in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong and declared war, bringing the US and the UK into World War II in the Pacific.
. After the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on August 15. The war cost Japan and the rest of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere millions of lives and left much of the nation's industry and infrastructure destroyed.
. After the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on August 15. The war cost Japan and the rest of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere millions of lives and left much of the nation's industry and infrastructure destroyed.
Credit:
Album / Universal Images Group / Pictures From History
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Image size:
3892 x 4491 px | 50.0 MB
Print size:
33.0 x 38.0 cm | 13.0 x 15.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
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