Exhibits
Location: Government Documents
On June 26, 1945, the Charter of the United Nations is signed in San Francisco by 50 countries at the conclusion of the United Nations... View "Naval mining of Japanese harbors; bombing of japanese aircraft plants; oil refinery targeted in Taiwan; Sarawak captured by Australian forces" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
The Joint Chiefs of Staff direct Generals MacArthur and Arnold and Admiral Nimitz to prepare for immediate occupation of Japan in the event the enemy... View "Last weeks of fighting in Okinawa; US Army & Navy airmen executed at Taihoku Prison; bombing raids on Japanese homeland continues" Exhibit
Location: Science & Technology Department
Monday, 8 June, was World Oceans Day. The theme for this year is Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet. The SciTech Department currently has an exhibit featuring... View "World Oceans Day - Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Project Hula requires American and Russian sailors to work side by side in a program for the final fight against Japan. This program requires a special detachment... View "Bombing of Kyushu & Osaka; battle in Okinawa intensifies; V-E Day celebratory activities" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
The Korea Collection at Hamilton Library has a significant number of North Korea-related titles, currently holding over 2,500 titles related to North Korean subject matters,... View "North Korean Children's Book Collection" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Sailors call them "Bat out of Hell," "Hara-Kiri on Wings," "Dead Pigeon," or simply "suicide planes." In Okinawa, the proximity of Japanese airfields in Kyushu... View "Berlin Declaration signed; Allies bomb Taihoku (Taipei), Kyushu airfields, and urban Kobe; typhoon off Okinawa damage many American ships" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
With Germany's surrender, priority is at last focused on the war's Pacific theater. By a system of point credit, soldiers are either discharged or redeployed... View "Operation Olympic approved; Japanese Special Attack aircraft sorties continue off Okinawa; Yokohama & urban Tokyo bombed" Exhibit
Location: Bridge Gallery
Extended and moved to the Library's main lobby.On August 15, 1945 (Japan time), Japan accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and surrendered to the... View "Japanese Peace Posters and the 70th Anniversary of the End of World War II" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Military defeat of Nazi Germany was the first part, the second is eliminating Nazi philosophy from its society. Upon surrender one in every ten is... View "Bombing raids on Japanese cities; post V-E Germany; Pacific theater of war" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
General Eisenhower, as Allied Supreme Commander, oversees the redeployment of U.S. forces to the United States and Pacific theater and Allied military government. This includes... View "Military governance and Allied redeployment in the European theater begins; Prague liberated; Nagoya heavily bombed" Exhibit
