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Officers of submarine I-400, circa late Aug 1945	US Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft over Mokapu Point, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 31 Aug 1945

USS Wasp (Essex-class) hangar deck set up to accommodate 810 wounded transferred from the fleet for transportation to Hawaii after Wasp was ordered to the rear with typhoon damage to the flight deck, 31 Aug 1945	Vice Admiral John McCain arriving aboard carrier USS Shangri-La for Task Force 38 change of command ceremonies, 31 Aug 1945. Note the disbelieving look from one officer seeing McCain’s famous hat for the first time.

119 B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 73rd Bomb Wing lined up on Baker runway, Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Sep 1945 with 35 more B-29s seen in the periphery.	A Japanese prisoner of war bowing to camp commander Lieutenant Harold F. Gannon, Guam, Aug-Sep 1945

A recovered ballast dropping apparatus from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb being examined by an American technician. He is removing the battery case to expose the components of the barometer box beneath.	A Russian family (Mrs. Mary Mescheriakoff, son Tom, and daughter) at a internment camp in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Sep 1945

A7M2 Reppu fighter at rest in a hangar, Yokosuka, Japan, Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	A7M2 Reppu fighter at rest in a hangar, Yokosuka, Japan, Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2

Aerial photo taken by aircrews from USS Yorktown (Essex-class) of prisoner of war camps in Japan, Aug or Sep 1945. Note rooftop markings by POWs.	Aerial photo taken by USS Hancock aircraft showing the Japanese battleship Nagato off the Yokosuka Navy Yard, Tokyo Bay, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945

Aerial view of barren Tokyo, Japan, circa Aug-Sep 1945	American captives at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3 in Hokkaido, Japan waving at a circling US aircraft, 1945

American captives at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3, Hokkaido, Japan, 1945	American correspondents interviewed Toguri, Sep 1945

Art vendor, Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1945	Captured A6M3 Model 22 Zero fighter, near Buin, Bougainvile, Sep 1945

Captured Japanese A6M Zero fighter at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Sep 1945; note missing stabilizer on aircraft and jeep in background	Captured Junkers Ju-290 heavy transport aircraft with German markings but with US tail number FE3400 flying over the United States in late 1945. This plane became a common sight at postwar air shows.