Occupied Japan The US 1st Cavalry Division enters Tokyo.
Gen Tojo attempts suicide to avoid arrest and trial for war crimes. He will be hanged in 1948.
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Occupied Korea Americans land at Inchon in response to the Soviet occupation of North Korea.
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Images from September 8, 1945
Vice-Adm Daniel E. Barbey (in front), USN, and Lt-Gen John R. Hodge (middle), US Army, watch Korean occupation landings at Jinsen (Inchon), Korea, from USS Catoctin (AGC-5), 8 September 1945.
Watching Korean Occupation Landings
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Harbor of Jinsen (Inchon), Korea, photographed from a USS Intrepid (CV-11) aircraft, as Allied forces land there to begin the occupation of southern Korea, 8 September 1945. Wolmi-Do island is in the lower right, below the airplane wing, with a causeway connecting it to Inchon city. A US Navy submarine chaser (PC) is the larger vessel in the upper center. Landing craft are maneuvering nearby.
Harbor of Jinsen (Inchon)
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Type D submarine on the ways at the Yokosuka Naval Base, 8 September 1945
Type D submarine
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