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US Marine F4U Corsair fighter dropping a fire bomb on a Japanese position in Northern Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945	US Navy airship K-101 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 at Pisa, Italy, May 1945.

US Navy VF-82 F6F-5 Hellcat fighter ready for launch from USS Bennington, off Okinawa, May 1945; note the fighter's captain in foreground	US troops inspecting the hulk of an Me 262 jet fighter alongside the autobahn south of Munich, Germany, May 1945.

USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber flying over the crater of Mt Vesuvius, Italy, May 1945.	WAVES aircraft mechanics working on the port outboard Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engine of a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, mid-1945

WAVES Seamen 1st Class Billy Ikard and Barbara A. Patterson moving a battery cart into position next to a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, circa mid-1945	WAVES Seamen 1st Class Martha Harrison and Lorrain Taylor working on the #1 Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engine of a R5D Skymaster aircraft, Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, United States, mid-1945

Wreckage of a Japanese Army Ki-21 aircraft, modified for special attack duty, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945	B-17G Fortress “Liquid-8-Or” of 569th Bomb Squadron dropping cases of “10 in 1” rations into Holland during Operation Chowhound aimed at breaking the famine in western Holland, May 1 or 3 1945.

F4U Corsair fighters being offloaded from escort carrier USS Altamaha onto a barge at Guiuan Harbor, Samar, Philippines, 1 May 1945	Captured Japanese L2D2-3 transport with US markings, Clark Field, Philippine Islands, 3 May 1945

Ships in Kerama Retto anchorage near Okinawa, Japan spreading an anti-kamikaze smoke screen, 3 May 1945, as viewed from USS Sargent Bay. Note TBM Avenger and FM-2 Wildcat aircraft in foreground.	Allies examining a captured Mistel flying bomb, a Focke-Wulf Fw-190 piggybacked onto a Junkers Ju-88 bomber. The bomber would be filled with explosives and controlled by the fighter pilot, France, 4 May 1945.

D4Y3 Suisei special attack aircraft diving at USS Sangamon as part of Operation Kikusui No. 5, off Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945	Fires burning aboard HMS Formidable after being stuck by Japanese special attack aircraft, Pacific Ocean, 4 May 1945

HMS Formidable crewmen starting to remove the wreckage of Japanese special attack aircraft from the flight deck, Pacific Ocean, 4 May 1945	F4U-1D Corsair on the flight deck of USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa, 6 May 1945

He 111 aircraft on the beach of La Concha, San Sebastián, Spain, 7 May 1945; this aircraft had brought Léon Degrelle from Norway	Royal Navy Avenger aircraft flying from HMS Indomitable in flight over Ishigaki Airfield, Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan, 9 May 1945; note fire and explosions on the airfield