SC 337414 - Japanese repatriates prepare to start a new life as free citizens in a new Japan.
These are part of 2500 former Japanese soldiers which were captured and held by the Russians in prison camps in Nahoda, Siberia, and just arrived at the Maizuru Repatriation Center in Maizuru, Japan, after approx. five years imprisonment. 23 January, 1950. Photographer: Dangel.
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- 2022
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- Signal Corps Archive from United States
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- Wikimedia Commons
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