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MacArthur leaving headquarters

Camp Drake Japan Dec 18, 1945

Herb Churchill is on left

General Headquarters Yokohama 1947

 

Ernie Pyle Building

Ernie Pyle Building with Jeep parked in front.

                                                                                                            Memorial Hall Yokohama 1946

Tokyo PX 1946

Headquarters 3RD Military Railway Service

                                                                                                              

            Yokohama Club and the American Red Cross

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

    Japanese Parliament

   

   

   

   

    Meiji Hotel

Outskirts of Hiroshima

 

   

Baseball in Japan April 1946

 

Practice Game at 2nd BN HQ Fitzpatrick at bat. 6' 4" or 5

Our first baseman #13 is "Pineapple" Arakwa - Hawaii

#22 Sakalukus "Legs"

April 1946

 

Herbs Buddies

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At the main gate to Camp Drake December 1946.

 

 

On the way to Kyushu by train.

Women and children taken on the way to Kyoto

 

Domain of the Golden Dragon

 

Kyushu

 

Osaka

 

Osaka, Japan

24Th Infantry Division Provost Marshall

Herb in Willy's Jeep. Was playing catch before this picture

This Jones is a comedian!

In Japan with sidearm

Baseball in Japan

Unknown player at bat

BEDiion 3rd string catcher with some Jap kids

Nagoya Japan Postwar

Pineapple 5-14-1947 in Hawaii

 

Baseball Game New Castle, PA

Herb played semi-pro baseball after the war

 

Links of Interest

Operation Downfall - The invasion of Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

 

1st Cavalry Division

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_%28United_States%29