From Flickr: “127-GW-201-227921” by Photograph Curator

127-GW-201-227921: The Astor House hotel in Tientsin is lavishly decorated on the first anniversary of V-J Day. In the evening the hotel was the scene of a sumptuous dinner tendered high-ranking local and allied officials. Photographed by Private First Class Stagwiijo, Tientsin, China, August 15, 1946. (5/12/2015).

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt