WORLD WAR II - PACIFIC THEATRE.

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American photograph album showing the war against Japan. A graphic album showing fighting in the Philippines, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Guam, the Solomon Islands, and Palau. The compiler chose to include violent images, displaying the brutality of the campaign.The album opens with portrait shots of individual Marines or groups, along with photographs of American encampments and ships. The scenes then turn more distressing, with images of dead locals, including children, lying on the beach or next to tanks. The photographs were taken across the Pacific theatre: one shows an American soldier holding a flame-thrower on Kwajalein Atoll, another shows a beach landing at Luzon, and a third shows a Marine posing next to a sign in Bougainville. Most were taken in the final years of the conflict, including at Guadalcanal and Peleliu. There are also shots of the end of the war, one showing a Japanese soldier surrendering with a white flag and another showing Japanese prisoners of war in a camp in Guam. The final photograph is the most famous, "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima", showing six Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. This photograph won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.The majority of the photographs are commercial, with a few opening portrait shots of the unidentified compiler.

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