JPC 107
JPC 107
Photo album belonging to an officer in command of a platoon of military police with the 1st Cavalry Division in Occupied Japan, specifically at Hiratsuka City in Kanagawa Prefecture. View of the camp, Hiratsuka City, the beach area, Segama Bay, Nagia beach, Kamakura beach, Chigasaki beach, Japanese train and cargo ship, several soldiers mentioned by name. interesting photo of MP standing beside a sign that reads ‘No Public Display of Affection’, Japanese locals, shoeshine boy, ‘a negro baby with a Japanese woman’, the navy club at Yokosuka, young Japanese mascot name ‘Pauncho’ dressed in a child’s military uniform, 
JPC 107war damage at Yokahama, gruesome photo of a dead Japanese soldier holding a straight razor with his throat cut and caption reads
JPC 107 ‘I saw this Jap cut his throat’. Distant photos of the 1st Cavalry Division on parade in Tokyo (the first US unit to enter Tokyo), and some photos of US personnel on horseback (the last of the 1st Cavalry Division's mounted units permanently retired their horses and converted to infantry formations on 28 February 1943)
The officer was senior as he has a photo of his assistant. There are 72 photos as well as two pieces of Japanese currency. The album is complete with only two photos missing that appear to have fallen out. All photos are hinged and with captions. 
JPC 107The cover board has separated but otherwise a strong crisp album. M
Price: $690.00
Note:
JPC 107 The 1st Cavalry Division ("First Team”) is one of the most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army, as well as the other four branches of the U.S. military. As the war ended the division left Luzon 25 August 1945 for occupation duty in Japan, arriving in Yokohama 2 September 1945 and entering Tokyo 8 September, the first United States division to enter the Japanese capital. 101 unit was set up in May 1945 to search for the missing soldiers in the Second World War II. The detachment consisted of 17 people, three of them officers: 
JPC 107Captain MacColeman, Lieutenant Foley and Sergeant Ryan. The operation was successful, although it lasted three years. Occupation duty in Japan followed for the next five years. 
JPC 107During the war the Division lost 734 killed in action, 3,311 wounded in action and 236 died of wounds.
After the war, General Douglas MacArthur, the chief commander of Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers for the Occupation of Japan, landed in Kanagawa, before moving to other areas. U.S. military bases still remain in Kanagawa, including Camp Zama (Army), Yokosuka Naval Base,Naval Air Station Atsugi (Navy).
Although instances of rape by US forces in Occupied Japan, there were problems in Hiratsuka City, 
JPC 107
JPC 107as noted in Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II, by Toshiyuki Tanaka
