The Snapshots in Time Collection

U.S. Navy Officers and Civilian at Improvised Corrugated-Metal Structure, Occupied Hiroshima, Japan

U.S. Navy Officers and Civilian at Improvised Corrugated-Metal Structure, Occupied Hiroshima, Japan

Six men — several identifiable as U.S. Navy officers by their combination caps, alongside a figure in clerical or civilian dress — pose before a corrugated-metal structure amid salvaged building materials, likely photographed in or near Hiroshima during the early Allied Occupation of Japan. Images such as this, preserved in personal photo albums, offer a ground-level view of the devastated city and the improvised shelters erected in the atomic bombing's aftermath. Project: 218248