Special Passenger Permit, Chinese Air Force

A Chinese Air Force (Nationalist China, i.e. Taiwan), issued to my father.

6100 USAF Hospital, Nagoya Japan, Mid 1950s. Slideshow

Japan, (and perhaps Formosa) Mid 1950s. Slideshow

Statuary in Japan

Baseball in Japan, mid 1950s

Japan in the mid 1950s, Slideshow

Ship and shore, Japan mid 1950s, Slideshow

Pearls and Pearl Divers in Japan, mid 1950s

Rural Japan, mid 1950s

Helicopters over Japan, mid 1950s

Nagoya Castle, mid 1950s

These are photographs of Nagoya Castle in the mid 1950s. At the time these were taken, the castle was undergoing some repairs as it had sustained bomb damage during World War Two.

F-84 Thunderjets in Japan, mid 1950s

Flying from Casper, Wyoming to Salt Lake City and on to San Francisco, mid 1950s

These photos were taken in one set, I think. I know that the Salt Lake to San Francisco photographs are part of a set my father took on a journey that ultimately went to Japan, with stops at Hawaii and Wake Island. I suspect that the first few photographs, showing a Western Airlines airliner at the Natrona County Airport, are part of this set. I'd also note that I think all of these photos depict C-46 aircraft, but I don't know if they all depict the same one.

Note the sailor who was also boarding in the first photograph. Then, as now, there were a lot of servicemen traveling at any one time.

Catholic Church in Nagoya, Japan, mid 1950s

F-86Ds in Japan

Note the drag chute being used on this F-86's landing.

F-86Ds in Japan, mid 1950s.