Historical Collection of Pictures Hiroshima/Shanghai

[Jordanwilliam23]

Hello, my name is Bret. My grandfather was a Navy photographer. He had a pretty extensive collection of photographs that hadn't seen the light of day for 80 years. Going to considerable efforts to restore them and additionally try to decipher context from some of the more interesting ones. What I know is he was apparently , even at 19 years old , one of Admiral BJ Rodger’s ( of the seventh fleet) preferred photographers and covered some pretty extraordinary events. He was one of the first Americans to enter Hiroshima and to record the repatriation process of all the Chinese Korean and Japanese soldiers from ports in Shanghai. Additionally, there was a massacre aboard in LST in 1946 it was briefly mentioned in a post here. The nephew of one of the victims and also the hero posted here about it, and I would love to get these photos to them, but I can’t find the post now. I have what would seem to be the only photographic evidence of the funeral and two of the nine dead that have been kind of hidden except for the hero Schmidt and the other naval seaman George Simpson, who died later of his wounds. I’ve been able to extract two more names from the gravesite, and I can find nothing about them online. I would like to get these pictures to family members of the remaining seven or all nine but I doubt mostly even know what happened to their loved one. The photographs were taken from across the way for some reason so being able to extract any names from the prepared graves  was very difficult and I was only able to get two. But it appears that they reinterred  a pilot who died in March 2045 with this group so that it would look like anything other than a collection of young man killed by a fellow seaman. Sorry if This sounds crazy.