Emaciated Japanese Naval Personnel photographed at a Japanese hospital in the Marshall Islands, 15 September 1945. Location is probably Wotje or Maloelap Atoll.

Source

[Source](https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-340000/80-G-347131.html)

They show the effects of the blockade and bombardment of bypassed Japanese-held islands in the central Pacific over the last year-and-a-half of World War II.

pueblodude: Hmmm ……my father survived the Bataan Death March,Hell ships to Japan. POW 3 1/2 years.
Hell for everybody.