
Caption | Crewmen of the USS Wasp (Essex-class) celebrate news of the war’s end by sunbathing on the flight deck off Japan, mid Aug 1945; days before this section of the flight deck was badly damaged in a typhoon. ww2dbase | ||||||||||
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Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation | ||||||||||
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