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German Volkssturm troops in Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland), 2 Feb 1945; note Kar98k rifles and Panzerfaust	German Volkssturm troops with a MG 34 machine gun, Silesia, Germany (now Poland), Feb 1945

Troops of Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front fighting in Budapest, Hungary, 5 Feb 1945	Jake Rand, A. K. Bartlow, Okie, and George Beal of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, 13 Feb 1945; note 75mm howitzer in background

Gunnery practice with 40-mm Bofors MK 12 anti-aircraft guns aboard Hornet while her aircraft raided Japan, 16 Feb 1945	An US Marine firing a Browning M1917 machine gun, Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 Feb 1945

US Marine Corporal Virgil W. Burgess gave his dog Prince instructions on which foxhole to carry a message to, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	US Marines fighting on Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 Feb 1945

US Marines on Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 Feb 1945	US Marines burrowing in the volcanic sand on the beach of Iwo Jima, Japan, 20 Feb 1945; note LST-264 and Mount Suribachi in background

Men of 3rd Battalion, US 23rd Marine Regiment at a destroyed Japanese pillbox, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	US Marine 37mm gun firing on Japanese positions on the northern slope of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima in support of RCT 28, 21 Feb 1945

US military using demolition charges to clear destroyed vehicles from Iwo Jima beach, Japan, 21 Feb 1945	Men of the US 5th Marines Division manning a machine gun, Iwo Jima, Japan, 22 Feb 1945

Burial at sea aboard a US Coast Guard ship with Marine Corps honor guard, in the Pacific Ocean off Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	General Douglas MacArthur and Colonel James Corbett at the ruins of the Manila Hotel, Manila, Philippine Islands, 23 Feb 1945

German paratroopers moving a 7.5 cm PaK 40 gun into position in muddy terrain, Italy, 23 Feb 1945	Joe Rosenthal making a photograph of US servicemen with the second flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Feb 1945

Men of 28th Regiment, US 5th Marine Division putting up the first flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, at 1020 hours on 23 Feb 1945; note M1 Carbine	Nearly deflated Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon grounded near Tremonton, Utah, United States, 23 Feb 1945. The ballast dropping equipment found with this balloon was damaged.