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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.	War weary aircraft at the Wheeler Field graveyard (Waieli Gulch airstrip), Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Apr 1945. Photo 1 of 2.

War weary aircraft at the Wheeler Field graveyard (Waieli Gulch airstrip), Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Apr 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Ground crew made an 'on the line' check of the radio in the P-51 Mustang 'Hot Shot Charlies' of the 364th Fighter Group, US 383rd Fighter Squadron, RAF Honnington, England, United Kingdom, 5 Apr 1945

US B-25J (44-29600; 2Lt Francis A. Thompson) of 499th 'Bats Outta Hell' Bomb Squadron of 345th 'Air Apaches' Bomb Group attacking Japanese Type-C Escort Vessel No. 1, in Taiwan Strait south of Amoy (Xiamen), China, 6 Apr 1945	Mark XIII torpedo with wooden drag ring being loaded into a United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945. Note the Marsden Matting.

United States Navy PV-2 Harpoon of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-139 at Casco Field, Attu Island, Aleutians, Alaska, 7 Apr 1945.	B-17G Flying Fortress 'Wee-Willie' of 322nd Bomber Squadron of USAAF 91st Bomber Group losing a wing from flak fire over Stendal, Germany, 8 Apr 1945; 8 were killed; pilot and 1 crewman survived

American troops moving captured MXY7 Ohka aircraft I-10, Kadena airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	B-24L 'Stevonovitch II' of the of the 464th Bomber Group hit by German anti-aircraft fire over Lugo, Italy, 10 Apr 1945; out of the crew of 10 only 1, the bombardier, survived.