Box 2009189.065

Scope and Contents This album consists of 191 black and white images depicting American military troops in Japan. Images are showing soldiers standing next to wracked airplanes, soldier standing next to a historic buildings, improvised airport in an open field, soldiers working on airplanes, wracked airplanes, improvised barber shop, soldiers with native people in their villages, rivers, military trucks on dirt roads, military camp, bridges, soldiers holding Japanese flag, market scene, civilian casualties,...

Scope and Contents This album consists of ninety-seven photographs depicting Howard S. Hodson’s service during the World War II in Japan. Howard entered Navy on April 10, 1945, finishing training on June 23, 1945, and arrived in Carolina Island on August 24, 1945 where he was assigned to Group 10 and sailed off to Japan. He was discharged on March 19, 1946. Images are depicting arrival to Yokohama, destroyed Japanese ships, Tokyo, Mount Fuji, arrival to Nagota, Pearl Harbor, postcard formats of scenes from...

Scope and Contents This album consists of sixty-four images depicting soldiers at the training camps in Gulfport, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; Dyersburg, Tennessee; and Kingman and Yucca, Arizona. Most of the soldiers are identified by their first names. One image depicts a view of clouds taken from an airplane flying over Budapest, Hungry. Album also contains a message written by Billy after he arrived home.