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Ensign Ardon R. Ives of Fighting-Bombing Squadron VBF-9 crashed his F6F-5 Hellcat through the barrier on USS Lexington (Essex-class) and ruptured the center-line fuel tank, Feb 1945, western Pacific. Photo 5 of 7 | Ensign Ardon R. Ives of Fighting-Bombing Squadron VBF-9 crashed his F6F-5 Hellcat through the barrier on USS Lexington (Essex-class) and ruptured the center-line fuel tank, Feb 1945, western Pacific. Photo 6 of 7 |
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Ensign Ardon R. Ives of Fighting-Bombing Squadron VBF-9 crashed his F6F-5 Hellcat through the barrier on USS Lexington (Essex-class) and ruptured the center-line fuel tank, Feb 1945, western Pacific. Photo 7 of 7 | Escort carrier USS Bogue at anchor off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Feb 1945. Note the 1943 addition of a HF/DF antenna mast forward of the island, essential for Bogue’s mission as a Hunter-Killer ship. |
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Escort carrier USS Bogue in Measure 32/Design 4A paint steaming off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Feb 1945. Note TBM Avengers on deck. | F4U Corsairs spotted on the flight deck aboard the carrier Franklin during a training period around the Hawaiian Islands, Feb 1945. |
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F6F-5 Hellcat with Fighting Squadron VF-82 preparing for a catapult launch from USS Bennington in the Western Pacific, Feb 1945. Note the arrowhead geometrics that identify the plane as coming from the Bennington. | FG-1D Corsair being catapulted off the deck of Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Sargent Bay, early 1945. Note the catapult bridle a moment after disengaging from the airplane. |
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Ford Island, Pearl Harbor shipyard, Hickam Field, and Honolulu Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii, Feb 1945 (NAS Honolulu would later revert back to John Rodgers Airport and then become Honolulu Int’l Airport). | G4M2E Model 24 Tei bomber releasing a MXY7 Ohka manned special attack aircraft, circa 1945 |
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German soldiers demonstrating the Panzerfaust weapon to Volkssturm troops, Berlin, Germany, Feb-Mar 1945 | German SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny speaking with troops, in Pomerania, Germany, Feb 1945 |
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German troops with Panzerfaust weapons, Feb 1945 | German Volkssturm soldiers digging anti-tank ditches outside Berlin, Germany, Feb-Mar 1945 |
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German Volkssturm soldiers digging anti-tank ditches outside Berlin, Germany, Feb-Mar 1945 | German women marching out of Berlin, Germany to dig defensive fortifications, Feb-Mar 1945 |
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Grys, Parkhill, Singleton, Hudinski, Ferguson, Hutchinson, Fulton of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, Feb 1945 | Gunnery practice with 40-mm Bofors MK 12 anti-aircraft guns aboard USS Hornet, Pacific Ocean, circa Feb 1945 |
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Japanese officers Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, Lieutenant General Isamu Cho, Colonel Hitoshi Kanayama, Colonel Kiuji Hongo, and Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, in numbered order, Okinawa, Japan, early Feb 1945 | Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov at Yalta, Russia (now Ukraine), Jan-Feb 1945 |
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