Post World War II Occupation of Japan Multiracial U.S. Military Life and Air Transport Command Operations 1946
U.S. Army Air Forces photographs, 1946, document racially integrated groups of American servicemen operating across Pacific bases and occupied Japan prior to the formal desegregation of the armed forces under Executive Order 9981 in 1948. The images place Black and white soldiers within shared military environments at a transitional moment.....
