japanese army reporter looking at a shot down chinese fighter (shanghai 1937)

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japanese army officer hideki saito of the 15th infantry Division, he fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Burma Campaign and surrended to the americans in thailand 1945, however he and a number of officers of the 22nd Division refused to return to Japan , and joined the Viet Minh in their struggle for independence (First Indochina War) against the returning French colonial forces.



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Japanese aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.