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| A Kairyu-class submarine partially submerged, circa Oct-Dec 1945; copied from the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan Report S-01-7, Jan 1946, pg 124, fig 134 | A Kairyu-class submarine partially submerged, circa Oct-Dec 1945; copied from the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan Report S-01-7, Jan 1946, pg 129, fig 144 |
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| A reassembled German V2 ballistic rocket on a stand for Allied testing at former the Krupps proving grounds at Cuxhaven, Germany, Oct 1945. | A reassembled German V2 ballistic rocket on a stand for Allied testing at the former Krupps proving grounds at Cuxhaven, Germany, Oct 1945. Note smoke beginning to escape from the rocket as part of the launch sequence. |
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| A safe admist bomb damaged landscape,Tokyo or Yokohama, Japan, fall 1945 | A sailor from USS Chenango in Sasebo, Japan, Sep-Oct 1945 |
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| Abandoned Zero fighter, Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, 1945 | Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945 |
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| Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945 | Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945 |
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| Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945 | Aerial view of Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, showing its final configuration with four runways and numerous reinforced aircraft revetments, 1945. |
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| Aerial view of Yokosuka Navy Air Corps Oppama Base, Japan, late 1945 | At the United States Naval Academy’s centennial exhibition, the captured U-505 and torpedo boat T35 are on display as war trophies, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, Oct 1945 |
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| Automobile converted to burn charcoal, Japan, Oct 1945 | Battleship Haruna in her sunken state at Kure, Japan, Oct 1945 |
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| Black PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-54 pulled from the water at a base in the Philippines, late 1945. | Bridge over the Ota River in Hiroshima, Japan, scorched by the atomic bomb blast, 1945; note permanent shadows on the bridge surface |
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| Capsized Izumo, Kure, Japan, Oct 1945; photo taken by USS Sigoney aircraft | Capsized Japanese ship, near Kure, Japan, late 1945 |
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