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Captured Japanese weapons

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Theodore Akimoto Family Collection

Caption: "As word of the surrender spreads, Japanese forces on the various Pacific [sic] isles / surrender to our troops and the mountain of captured weapons rises."

c.1945-1947

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Courtesy of the Theodore Akimoto Family Collection

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