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Museum to display 1945 photos by sailor
Kyodo News Agency
Posted : Friday Aug 22, 2008 16:35:59 EDT
Posted : Friday Aug 22, 2008 16:35:59 EDT
NAHA, Japan — Photos by a now-deceased U.S. Navy sailor taken in the days after the Battle of Okinawa during World War II were donated to the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum on Friday.
The late Harold Fawcett’s grandson, Scott, handed the museum 87 photos depicting such scenes as Japanese in a prison camp and U.S. troops doing maintenance work at an airport that used to belong to the imperial Japanese army.
Most of them are unpublished and are thought to be important historical documents. There is also a photo showing a now-defunct railway in Okinawa.
Fawcett stayed in Okinawa for about a year after the Battle of Okinawa ended in June 1945.
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