The Snapshots in Time Collection

Snow-Covered Barracks Building, U.S. Occupation-Era Installation, Japan, 1950s

Snow-Covered Barracks Building, U.S. Occupation-Era Installation, Japan, 1950s

A heavy snowfall blankets a U.S. military barracks building in occupied Japan during the 1950s. Photographs like this document daily life at American installations in the years following WWII, when U.S. forces remained stationed across Japan during the occupation and early Cold War period. Project: 218331