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Photos of Occupied Japan

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Dad was stationed in Utsonomya, Japan with the Army of Occupation. All of these photos were secured with photo mounting corners.  I took two of them out of the corners to look at the names on the back.  This caused some harm to the photos so I quit. The color images were postcards.
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Loose Photos: Pre War

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A large number of photos, newspaper and magazine clippings, and documents, were stored loose between two pages of the scrapbook. I have not tried to sort the scrapbook into chronological order.  Wbat you get in this blog is a series of pictures and other items in the order as they exist today within the spines of the scrapbook. Empty photo mounting corners on other pages showed where some of the photos had been.
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Loose Newspaper Clippings and Magazines

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Wikipedia article on the SS Patrick Henry Baltimore Sun's photo gallery of Liberty Ship SS Patrick Henry The entire copy of this issue of the Post was included in the scrapbook but the copyright laws (at least as I understand them) prevent me from posting the whole thing. The following map could be folded into a mailer.
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