Japanese pilots captured during 2nd Sino-Japanese War

Japanese pilots captured during 2nd Sino-Japanese War

Japanese pilots captured by the Chinese during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) - 'captured alive and treated with kindness'. They are 'allowed to write letters to their families in Japan'. Date: circa 1939

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000637051
  • Registered date
  • 1939/12/31 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Copyright (c) Mary Evans Picture Library 2008
  • Media size
  • 5162 × 3450 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 300 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 3.69(MB)*
  • Special instruction
  • **The text may be generated by an automatic translation system**

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

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