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80-G-490459: Allied Prisoner of War Camp, Omori, Japan, 1945

80-G-490495: Allied Prisoners of War, 1945. Sixty buses and ambulances line up to meet USS Ozark (LSV-2) when it arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands with 970 liberated Prisoners of War. Photograph received September 1945. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/05/29). The original is a small photograph.
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Caption: Allied Prisoner of War Camp, Omori, Japan, 1945. American and Japanese officers confer at Omori Allied Prisoner of War Camp, August 29, 1945, as prisoners are rescued by US Navy mercy parties, operating in the Tokyo and Yokohama areas. Commander Harold E. Stassen of the staff of Admiral William F. Halsey, can be seen at the left as other US Navy officers obtain information from Japanese prison officers. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/05/29). The original is a small photograph.
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