The Snapshots in Time Collection

Vehicle Servicing Under Open-Air Carport, Occupied Japan, Postwar Period

Vehicle Servicing Under Open-Air Carport, Occupied Japan, Postwar Period

American and prewar-era vehicles line an open-air maintenance shelter in occupied Japan following World War II. Scenes like this illustrate the everyday logistics of the occupation, as older automobiles and trucks - many carried over from the war years - remained essential to transportation and continued to require routine upkeep. Project: 218592