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MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft I-13, captured by Americans at Yontan airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2	PBJ-1H Mitchell of Marine Squadron VMB-613 on the flight line on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, May 1945. Note radome on starboard wingtip.

PFC Elroy Karl, PFC Joe Levy, Sgt Herbert Curtis, and Cpl Leland Wheeler working on a Hellcat fighter of US Marine Air Group 31, Yontan Airfield, Okinanwa, Japan, May 1945	Republic P-47 at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico as part of Operation White, the transfer of combat aircraft from Europe to the Pacific, 1945.

SB2C Helldivers flying over USS Essex during the Okinawa campaign, May 1945; USS Bunker Hill, USS Langley, and other vessels in background	SB2C-4E Helldivers with Bombing Squadron 87 flying from USS Ticonderoga, May 1945

Soviet Il-2 aircraft in flight over Berlin, Germany, 1945	TBM-3 Avengers with Torpedo Squadron 87 flying from the carrier Ticonderoga, May 1945.

Three PV-1 Ventura patrol planes preparing for take-off from Port Lyautey, French Morocco (now Kenitra, Morocco), May 1945. Note plane director with a red flag standing on the hood of the yellow Jeep	Two US Navy FR-1 Fireball fighters during carrier qualifications aboard aircraft carrier USS Ranger, May 1945

United States Marine Corps detachment aboard carrier USS Ticonderoga posing in front of a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat Nightfighter of Air Group 87, Apr-May 1945 in the central Pacific.	US Marine F4U Corsair fighter dropping a fire bomb on a Japanese position in Northern Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945

US Navy airship K-101 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 at Pisa, Italy, May 1945.	US Navy VF-82 F6F-5 Hellcat fighter ready for launch from USS Bennington, off Okinawa, May 1945; note the fighter's captain in foreground

US troops inspecting the hulk of an Me 262 jet fighter alongside the autobahn south of Munich, Germany, May 1945.	USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber flying over the crater of Mt Vesuvius, Italy, May 1945.

WAVES aircraft mechanics working on the port outboard Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engine of a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, mid-1945	WAVES Seamen 1st Class Billy Ikard and Barbara A. Patterson moving a battery cart into position next to a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, circa mid-1945

WAVES Seamen 1st Class Martha Harrison and Lorrain Taylor working on the #1 Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engine of a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, mid-1945	Wreckage of a Japanese Army Ki-21 aircraft, modified for special attack duty, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945