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F6F Hellcat launching from USS Intrepid’s starboard catapult, 1945. Note SB2C Helldiver and TBM Avenger spotted on the deck. Note also Independence-class light carrier cutting across Intrepid’s bow.	HMS Colossus off Wusong, Shanghai, China, circa Sep 1945

Post-war photo of a TBM-3 Avenger from Torpedo Squadron VT-27 from the aircraft carrier USS Independence flying over the Japanese battleship Nagato at Yokosuka, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945	US and Chinese airmen with a captured Japanese L2D aircraft, China, circa mid- to late-1945

XB-32 Dominator bomber of USAAF 386th Bombardment Squadron at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945	XB-32 Dominator bomber of USAAF 386th Bombardment Squadron refueling at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945

American aircraft fly over USS Missouri after the surrender, photo 1 of 3	American aircraft fly over USS Missouri after the surrender, photo 2 of 3

B-29 bombers flew in formation over battleship Missouri, during the Japanese surrender ceremonies, 2 Sep 1945	USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2

Escort Carrier USS Attu and Fleet Carrier USS Shangri-La (left) exchanging personnel and equipment by high wire while at sea, 3 Sep 1945. Note F4U Corsairs and SB2C Helldiver aircraft on Attu’s deck.	A Curtis SB2C Helldiver flying from USS Intrepid over Tientsin, China (now Tianjin), 5 Sep 1945. Intrepid launched 86 aircraft this day as a show of strength during the demobilization of Japanese forces in the area.

Two TBM-3 aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-26 (USS Santee) at Matsuyama Airfield, Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan, early Sep 1945	USMC Major Dick Johnson's TBM-3 Avenger aircraft at Matsuyama Airfield, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2; Johnson was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan at the end of the war

USMC Major Dick Johnson's TBM-3 Avenger aircraft at Matsuyama Airfield, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2; Johnson was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan at the end of the war	Corsair fighter in an elevator aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2

Corsair fighter in an elevator aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Corsair fighter landing on HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945

Preparing a Corsair aircraft for flight aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945	12 Liberator bombers flew in four V formations over the Japanese surrender ceremony at Okinawa, Japan, 7 Sep 1945; note Japanese guns in center and M26 Pershing tanks in left corner