Photos WW2 Japanese Forces

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During WW2 the Japanese established the reputation as being the masters of camouflage, particulary in jungle warfare.
IJA infantrymen were issued sections of large-mesh netting which they could drape over themselves and garnish with natural foliage.
This image illustrates the general principle.
(LIFE Collections)

 

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Japanese soldiers using a Type 97 20 mm anti-tank rifle. 1942.

 

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Puppet Emperor Kang Te (Pu Yi) of Machukuo and last Emperor of China, upon arriving in Japan for a state visit, 1940; note the battleship Hyūga in the background

 

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Remains of the Japanese fleet. Straw men created to make gun emplacements appear to be manned. photo George Silk, LIFE. 1945.

A PBM Mariner in the background

 

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April 6th 1945.
Moment of terror aboard Japanese Type-C Escort Vessel No.1 sinking, after having been attacked by US aircraft in Formosa Strait.

 

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Disarmed Imperial Japanese soldiers are marched out of Singapore towards prisoner of war camps while guarded by Indian soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division. Singapore, September 1945.

 

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J8M1 Shusui Sword Stroke was intended to be a licence-built copy of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet.
The year is 1945.

 

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World War II 1941
Women at War
Japanese women look for possible flaws in the empty shells in a factory in Japan, on September 30, 1941.
AP Photo

 

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Japanese Battleship Haruna sunk in shallow water near Kure Japan - September 1945
Haruna was sunk by planes from USN Task Force 38 on July 28, 1945
Originally a Kongō-Class Battlecruiser commissioned in 1915, Haruna was reclassified as a “Fast Battleship” by the Japanese Navy after extensive rebuilds in the 1930’s, but was still a Battlecruiser in terms of her armor protection
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer

 

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March 28th 1942
Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers on flight deck aboard aircraft carrier Akagi shortly after she left Port Stirling, Celebes for an action in Indian Ocean.

 

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Destroyed Type 97 Chi-Ha of the 9th Japanese Tank Regiment. Saipan. July 1944.

 

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Naval Marines use a field gun to exchange fire with Nationalist Chinese forces at the Shanghai North Railway Station, 30 September 1937

 

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Japanese soldiers attack a M3 Stuart tank with a Kaenbin, or similar device in Burma, 1943. From the quality of the picture, and the utter lack of covering fire against an exposed enemy, it suggests that this is a propaganda picture.

 

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Japanese soldiers with captured American jeep in Burma - 1943

 

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WWII. Japan. c 1942 - 45. Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' dive bombers fly past Mount Fuji.

 

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Japanese 105-mm cannon type 92 from the Second World War was discovered on the Kuril Islands, during excavation work.

 

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Smoke rises from the Japanese oil refineries at Palembang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies after an attack by British planes from the carrier HMS Victorious, January 1945

 

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Captured Japanese 76.2mm naval anti-aircraft gun Type 3. Makin Atoll, November 1943

 

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This day in 1942, the Japanese shift their strategy to reinforce only at night during the Guadalcanal campaign.