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19/05/2022

10/05/2022

09/05/2022

07/05/2022

Wartime Footage of The "Kamikaze".

06/05/2022

Japanese soldiers posing for a photo with captured Soviet equipment during the Battles of Khalkhin gol.

01/05/2022

American aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill burns after being hit by two kamikaze planes within 30 seconds.

28/04/2022

Discharged Imperial Japanese Army soldiers waiting to hitch a train ride home shortly after the end of World War 2 (Colorized, credit in left top).

25/04/2022

Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces pose at the 上海北站 (Shanghai North Railway Station) in photo used for the cover of Sekai Gaho (Pictorial World) magazine, 30 November 1937.

23/04/2022

Nakajima B6N2 carrier-based attack aircraft "Tianshan" equiped with a Torpedo attacking a US ship in 1945 (?).

23/04/2022

Crew training on Musashi's deck. View from the ''IJN Mushasi'' superstructure to the bow of the ship with gun turrets No. 1 and No. 2. The low-angle photo gives an idea of ​​what will remain the largest "classic" warship of all time. This ship displaced 73,000 tons at full load. For comparison nothing came up close until the USS Enterprise of 1960 at 84,626 tons. (Source: Naval-Encyclopedia & Wiki.Wargaming) (Colorized)

22/04/2022

The Nakajima A6M2-N (Navy Type 2 Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber) (also mounted on Yamato and launched by a catapult) somewhere in the Chuuk Islands in 1942.

22/04/2022

Japanese Special Landing Forces heading to Dutch East Indies. (Source: Reddit, colorized by BasedTojo).

21/04/2022

False captioned? "Commander Torashige Tsukioka of the 5th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Forces is leading a charge close during the Battle of Milne Bay on New Guinea, 1942. (Source: Reddit)"

Or was this taken in China ?

20/04/2022

Japanese pilots are photographed with local residents on the shore of one of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. In the background the Mitsubishi F1M seaplane, the "Pete" according to the American classification. This aircraft was widely used from cruisers, battleships, and coastal bases throughout the war for reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols. (Source: Original source unknown, was recolored?)