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U.S. transports land at Nanking airfield before formal surrender. General view of the Nanking airfield, until recently a base for a Japanese air force, but now being used by the U.S. Transport Command for bringing in to the Nanking area thousands of well equipped American trained trolps (sic) of the Chinese new Sixth Army. The Sixth Army will occupy and policy Nanking, Shanghai and other large cities on the China coast. Vehicles in the picture are Japanese army trucks which were requisitioned for servicing planes. Individual plane revetments were camouflaged and surrounded by trenches. 300-FO. (OWI staff photo by Larry Gahn).
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