Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Escorting Jean Home

General MacArthur escorts wife Jean from plane, following their return flight from Seoul to commemorate the launching of the Republic of Korea, August 1948. Was the General also showing how a gentleman should treat his wife?
From: Sakuda, Shigeru, ed. Occupied Tokyo. Naha-shi: Gekkan Okinawasha, Shōwa 54 (1979).

 

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