The Snapshots in Time Collection

Handwritten Letter Home Describing U.S. Occupation Duty and the Bombed City of Sendai, Japan, January 1946

Handwritten Letter Home Describing U.S. Occupation Duty and the Bombed City of Sendai, Japan, January 1946

Written from Japan in January 1946, this letter offers a personal glimpse into life during the early American occupation. The author describes routine barracks life alongside a stark account of a visit to Sendai, a city left largely in ruins by wartime bombing - a reminder of the human aftermath that followed the fighting. Project: 218347