Remembering the Occupation in color
Japan Times
All you see are burned ruins, Tokyo and Yokohama blanketed in ash from a bird's eye view.
Among the few structures still standing is the British Embassy, which survived the massive strategic bombings by the U.S. military during World War II.
The aerial photos are from some 10,000 color prints taken by U.S. servicemen, collected two decades ago by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda from veterans all across the United States.
"I feared those pictures would be scattered and lost," Hosoda, 60, said in a recent interview with The Japan Times....the rest...
