The Snapshots in Time Collection
Handwritten Diary Page: Deployment to Occupied Japan -- Yokohama and Tokyo, August-September 1946
A diary page documenting an American officer's voyage from San Francisco to occupied Japan aboard the transport vessel Lightning, his arrival at Yokohama's Central Pier in September 1946, and his subsequent assignment and billeting in Tokyo -- direct evidence of the postwar U.S. military government apparatus that administered occupied Japan following WWII. Project: 218594