A group of Japanese soldiers are in position with a machine gun behind sandbags in the vicinity of the railroad station in Shanghai, China.

Behind sandbags

Fighter pilots of the Tainan (Southern Taiwan) Air Group pose at the air base in Lae (Papua New Guinea) in June 1942. Among them are some of the most famous Japanese naval aviation aces: Saburō Sakai, (second from left in the second row), Toshio Ōta, (far left in the second row) and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (standing far left in the third row). 
Tainan Air Group was formed in October 1941 in Formosa (Taiwan) and their fighting in the Pacific has become one of the most famous and successful part of the Japanese naval aviation.
 


Aces among them

Japanese naval and marine personnel having been confined to their barracks at Kowloon (Hong Kong) since the landing of British forces, prepare to march to a prisoner of war camp.