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US Marines operating a captured Japanese Type 92 machine gun, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	US Marines posing with the second flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Feb 1945

A carbine-equipped US Marine on Iwo Jima, Feb 1945; note M8 grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of the weapon	Four US Marines cleared out a cave with BAR, small arms, and grenades, Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945

US Marine hauling an ammunition cart on Iwo Jima invasion beach, Japan, 19 Feb 1945	155 mm Howitzer M1 at Iwo Jima, 1945

A .30 caliber Browning water-cooled machine gun and its crew on Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	A German Volkssturm soldier teaching a woman how to operate the Panzerfaust weapon, Germany, Mar 1945

A man inspecting the combustion chambers of a German V2 rocket that crashed in East London, Mar 1945. There were other V2s that crashed in London without exploding and much intelligence was gained from them.	A Mark XIII aerial torpedo with wooden shroud rings fore and aft being loaded from a boat into the starboard bomb bay (in the engine nacelle) of a PBM Mariner patrol aircraft, probably 1945 in the Pacific.

A Royal Canadian Navy intelligence officer approaching a downed Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb in the western Canadian provinces, circa Mar 1945. Note the incendiary bombs still attached.	Captain Edward Steichen, head of the Navy’s combat photography and Director of the Naval Photographic Institute, right, speaking with US Marine Corporal William Damato on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Mar 1945

Captain Harold Cross of the Canadian Army was a balloon expert and is seen here next to a Japanese Fu-Go balloon’s ballast dropping apparatus after a balloon bomb recovery in Canada.	Four American Marines carried a wounded comrade, Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

German troops fighting in a ruined factory in northwestern Germany, Mar 1945; note Panzerfaust	German Volkssturm soldier demonstrating how to use a Panzerfaust, Berlin, Germany, spring 1945

German Volkssturm soldier firing a Panzerfaust in training, Germany, Mar 1945	German Volkssturm soldier training with a Panzerfaust, Berlin, Germany, spring 1945

German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfäuste at the S-Bahn station on Hermannstraße in the Neukölln section of Berlin, Germany, Mar 1945	Lieutenant R. A. Tilgham studying a map with his Marines, western Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945