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P-51D Mustang in the maintenance area at Poltava Air Base, Ukraine, Apr 1945. This was one of the last stragglers from Operation Frantic that flew its last operational mission seven months earlier.	P-61 Black Widow and P-51 Mustang fighters at Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945; note one TBM Avenger (wings folded) and one C-46 Commando aircraft in background

Partly completed Heinkel He-162 Volksjäger jet fighters in a salt mine at Tarthun (now Bördeaue), Germany, April 1945.	PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-26 aboard seaplane tender USS Norton Sound, Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945

PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-27 at Tanapag, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945. Page 1 of 2.	PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-27 at Tanapag, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945. Page 2 of 2.

Personnel of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) boarding a C-47 aircraft, Lashio Airfield, Shan, Burma, Apr 1945	SB2C Helldiver pilot checking the dive brakes at the Curtiss factory, Apr 1945

Silhouette of a USMC Corsair fighter seen against a burning supply dump, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	Six gun camera photos of a G4M2e Model 24 Tei bomber carrying MXY7 Model 11 Ohka bombs, 1945

Souvenir hunters on Iwo Jima sawing the propeller off of a wrecked Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" fighter, Mar 1945. They said they would make paper weights out of it later.	TBM-3 Avenger flying over Mt Suribachi on Iwo Jima after US forces had fully occupied the island, Mar-Apr 1945. Note storage tanks, tents, and other improvements set up by US forces.

US Navy Lt Robert S Selby shoots the sun with a sextant inside one of the 40mm gun tubs aboard seaplane tender USS Castle Rock, Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Apr 1945. Note 40mm ammunition racks and PBM Mariners beyond.	USAAF Capt Raymond H Littge of the 352nd Fighter Group in his P-51D Mustang showing 13 of his 23½ kills, RAF Bodney, Norfolk, England, UK, Apr 1945

Vought F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-451 ‘Blue Devils’ with its wings folded aboard USS Bunker Hill, south of Japan, spring 1945. Note the armorers readying the HVAR rockets and the rocket rack at right	CG-4A Troop Glider being recovered at Wesel, Germany Apr 1 1945

P-47D Thunderbolt of the 367th Fighter Squadron made a belly landing in field artillery position after being hit in the left wing during a dive bombing attack on near Würzburg, Germany, 1 Apr 1945. The pilot was only slightly injured.	F4U Corsairs and TBM Avengers of Air Group 6 aboard USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 2 Apr 1945

B-24M Liberator ‘Red Bow’ with the 448th Bomb Group falling from the sky over Ludwigslust, Germany after being hit with a rocket from a Me-262 jet fighter, 4 Apr 1945. Nine were killed and one was taken prisoner.	Six TBM-3 Avengers of Torpedo Squadron 6 flying from the carrier Hancock during a raid on Amami-O-Shima in the Okinawa Campaign, 4 Apr 1945.