World War II-Pacific

This series of reproductions of original war photos were taken by my father, Peter E. Corrigan, while he was serving in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was involved in both the Battles of Okinawa and Tinian, and finally was part of the occupying forces in Tientsin, China after the surrender of the Japanese. These photos offer a stark and gruesome look at the horrors of war, a fascinating glimpse of survivors on Tinien island and Tientsin, China, as well as look at the physical ruins and surviving architecture in each respective place, as seen through the eyes of a young Marine hero who had a keen photographic eye and was a master of capturing “the moment”.

The original photos have been scanned on a professional grade scanner and the digital images have been repaired as necessary using Photoshop (as would be expected, the original photos, being over 60 years old had seen some wear and the effects of age) to the extent they could be. Some of the images still have some minor fading, stains, and scratches present that were not possible to remove, but the photos in question bear those marks as a badge of authenticity and a patina of the period of history they represent.