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Chinese Army General Chen Cheng during a victory celebration immediately after the Japanese surrender, China, Aug 1945	Civilians at a rail station, Hiroshima, Japan, Sep 1945

Commodore Dixie Kiefer at his desk at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, 1945. Note the cast on his arm from injuries sustain several months earlier aboard USS Ticonderoga.	Crew members of the submarine USS Sailfish gather on the after deck in Groton, Connecticut, United States in Sep 1945 still celebrating the news that Japan had surrendered.

Demobilized Japanese soldiers and civilians at a rail station, Japan, Sep 1945	Demobilized Japanese soldiers at a train station in Hiroshima, Japan, Sep 1945

Department heads at the United States Navy’s Naval Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Virginia posing with the last Mark XIV torpedo produced at the facility, Aug 1945.	Desolated landscape of Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic detonation, post-war, photo 1 of 2; note Paul Tibbet's autograph

Desolated landscape of Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic detonation, post-war, photo 2 of 2	Devastated Osaka, Japan, circa Sep 1945; note Nankai Namba Station at far left of photo, Matsuzakaya Osaka store (now Takashimaya Higashi Annex) at bottom right edge, and Osaka Kabukiza Theater at center

Disabled Japanese aircraft at an airfield near Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1945	Ethnic Chinese civilians celebrating WW2 victory in Singapore, Sep 1945

F6F Hellcat launching from USS Intrepid’s starboard catapult, 1945. Note SB2C Helldiver and TBM Avenger spotted on the deck. Note also Independence-class light carrier cutting across Intrepid’s bow.	Former captives raising a US flag at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3, Hokkaido, Japan, 1945

Fumimaro Konoe and Mitsumasa Yonai, Japan, circa mid to late 1945	Greek sailors at an internment camp in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Sep 1945

Hangar bay of HMS Colossus while on repatriation duty, Jinsen Prisoner of War Camp, Inchon, Korea, Sep 1945	Hangar deck of the USS Intrepid transformed into a giant bunk room in Sep 1945 as part of Operation Magic Carpet that transported thousands of US servicemen from the western Pacific to the United States.

HMS Glory at Rabaul, New Britain, Sep 1945	Hybrid battleship-carrier Hyuga sunk in shallow waters, near Kure, Japan, late 1945