The Snapshots in Time Collection
Base Perimeter Scene with Watchtower and Guard Shack, Postwar Japan, Late 1940s-1950s
A weathered photograph from a postwar photo album documents everyday scenes around a military installation in occupied Japan during the late 1940s to 1950s. Structures such as the guard shack and watchtower pictured here were common features of American bases established during the postwar occupation period. Project: 218331