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| Submarine Ling underway during trials, Jul 1945 | TBM Avenger and SB2C Helldiver bombers dropped their load on the Japanese city of Hakodate, Jul 1945 |
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| TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMTB-242 taxiing past USAAF P-51D Mustangs at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 1, 1945. | United States Navy Admirals Halsey, Nimitz, and Sherman aboard a US Navy ship in the western Pacific, 1945. Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman (right) was Nimitz’ Chief of Staff. |
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| US Marine code talker Private Leslie Hemstreet at a shrine in Okinawa, Japan, 1945 | US Marine code talker Samnuel Sandoval of III Amphibious Corps Signal Battalion underneath a Torii gate on Okinawa, Japan, 1945 |
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| US Marine code talkers Private 1st Class Joe Hosteen Kelwood, Private Floyd Saupitty, and Private 1st Class Alex Williams aboard a transport en route to Okinawa, Japan, 1945 | US Navy Air Transport Squadron 12's WAVES Link trainer instructors, Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Jul 1945 |
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| USAAF man working on aerial reconnaissance photographs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 1 of 2 | USAAF man working on aerial reconnaissance photographs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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| USAAF men working on aerial reconnaissance photographs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 1 of 4 | USAAF men working on aerial reconnaissance photographs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 2 of 4 |
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| USAAF men working on aerial reconnaissance photographs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 3 of 4 | USAAF men working on aerial reconnaissance photographs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945, photo 4 of 4 |
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| USAAF officer preparing a propaganda leaflet, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945 | USS Mingo at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Jul 1945; circles on photograph denoted additions done during this overhaul |
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| USS Mingo off San Francisco, California, United States, Jul 1945 | USS North Carolina at anchor, 1945 |
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| USS Tirante rescuing a downed USAAF pilot (circled) close to the coast of Kyushu, Japan, 1945 | Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Major General Leslie Groves and Colonel Franklin Matthias visiting the Hanford site for production of plutonium-239, Jul 1945, Benton County, Washington, United States. |
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