The Snapshots in Time Collection
Massed Rows of Japanese Zero Fighters at Nagoya/Kobe Airfield, Japan
Dozens of Japanese Zero fighters sit parked in tight rows across a captured airfield near Nagoya and Kobe, Japan, photographed from atop a neighboring aircraft. Scenes of massed, grounded Japanese air power like this became common across the country following the September 1945 surrender, as American personnel surveyed the scale of Japan's once-formidable air forces now silenced. Project: 218237