Commander-in-Chief of the United Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto salutes pilots of Japanese naval aviation before leaving Rabaul, New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The admiral’s last photo before his death as a result of a special operation conducted by the Americans in which his plane was shot down over Bougainville Island; 4-18-1943. 

Last photo alive

Japanese troops in Kiska island, Aleutians, Alaska Territory, the first location on American soil to be invaded/occupied by enemy forces during WWII; June 6, 1942. 

Occupied and soon abandoned

A bicycle riding detachment of the Japanese Army passes through a village in the direction of Batavia (Jakarta, since 1942), the capital of the Dutch East Indies; March, 1942. 