The Snapshots in Time Collection

Verso of Photograph Album Print — 'Tokyo, July 1947' Handwritten Caption

Verso of Photograph Album Print — 'Tokyo, July 1947' Handwritten Caption

The reverse of this album photograph is inscribed in period pencil, 'Tokyo, July 1947,' placing the corresponding image during the early postwar Allied occupation of Japan. The photograph is part of a larger album associated with U.S. Naval Air Transport Squadron VR-6, based at Agana, Guam, whose personnel routinely flew logistics and personnel routes throughout the Pacific in the years following the Second World War. Project: 218207