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B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Dinah Might' after making an emergency landing at Motoyama Airfield No. 1, Iwo Jima, Japan, 4 Mar 1945; note USMC OY-1 Sentinal of VMO-4 and MB or GPW Jeep in foreground	USS Iowa with newly-equipped SC-1 Seahawk aircraft, 5 Mar 1945

Alaska's Chief Quartermaster John P. Overholt took a sun sighting with a sextant, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945; taking notes on the observations was QM3/c Clark R. Bartholomew	Gunner's Mate First Class Carrick N. Thomas passed a clip of four 40mm rounds through a hatch in a 40mm handling room of Alaska, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh was the first flight nurse to arrive on Iwo Jima, 6 Mar, 1945. She would also serve on Okinawa.	Chinese Y-Force Sherman tank at Lashio, Burma, 7 Mar 1945

Col James Beckwith, commander of the 15th Fighter Group, in his P-51 Mustang “Squirt” leading P-51s of the 45th Fighter Squadron from their base on Saipan to their new base on Iwo Jima, Mar 7, 1945. Note the VLR tanks.	Portside broadside view of the cruiser USS New Orleans off Mare Island, California, United States, 8 Mar 1945.

US Navy Cmdr. Thomas Gaylord administering oath to five new nurses commissioned in New York, United States, 8 Mar 1945; Phyllis Mae Dailey, USN's first African-American nurse, stood second from right	B-24H Liberator aircraft 'Spotted Ass Ape', lead assembly ship for 458th Bomber Group, US 754th Bomber Squadron based at RAF Horsham St. Faiths, Norfolk, England, UK, Mar 9 1945, photo 4 of 5

Joseph Goebbels shaking hands with Hitler Youth member Willi Hübner, who had just received the Iron Cross 2nd Class medal for bravery in combat, East Prussia, Germany, 9 Mar 1945	A Bulldozer with the US Marines 32nd Sea Bees cutting a road to the summit of Mt Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945. In 50 years of occupation, the Japanese had never built a road to the top of Suribachi.

A US Marine forward base nestled into the few pieces of foliage left on the island, Iwo Jima, Mar 10, 1945	African American US Army soldiers T/5 William E. Thomas and Private First Class Joseph Jackson marking artillery shells as Easter presents for Adolf Hitler, 10 Mar 1945

Charred mother and child after the Operation Meetinghouse bombing, Tokyo, Japan, 10 Mar 1945	Charred remains of Japanese civilians after the Operation Meetinghouse bombing, Tokyo, Japan, 10 Mar 1945

Chuo (foreground) and Koto (background) sections of Tokyo, Japan reduced to ruins after the Operation Meetinghouse bombing, 10 Mar 1945; note Shin-ohashi Bridge across Sumida River	German civilians building a roadblock near the Hermannstraße S-Bahn station, Berlin, Germany, 10 Mar 1945, photo 1 of 6

German civilians building a roadblock near the Hermannstraße S-Bahn station, Berlin, Germany, 10 Mar 1945, photo 2 of 6	German civilians building a roadblock near the Hermannstraße S-Bahn station, Berlin, Germany, 10 Mar 1945, photo 3 of 6