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| Crewmen of the USS Wasp (Essex-class) celebrate news of the war’s end by sunbathing on the flight deck off Japan, mid Aug 1945; days before this section of the flight deck was badly damaged in a typhoon. | Damaged Town Hall of Poznań, Poland, mid-1945 |
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| Dr. Norman Ramsey signing 'Fat Man' bomb while an electrian's mate applied plastic paint, in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945 | F4U Corsairs of Fighting Squadron VBF-86 flying from USS Wasp (Essex-class), Aug 1945 |
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| F6F-5 Hellcat, TBM-3 Avengers, and SB2C-4E Helldivers of Carrier Air Group 87 aboard Ticonderoga, Jun-Aug 1945. | FG-1D Corsair fighter of US Navy squadron VBF-88 in an elevator aboard USS Yorktown, Aug 1945 |
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| FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-213 assigned to Escort Carrier USS Saidor flying a training flight in Hawaii, 1945 | Fw 190 D-9 'Langnasen-Dora' aircraft at rest at an airfield, captured by Americans, post-European War; note P-47 fighters in background |
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| Guam and Alaska off China, Aug or Sep 1945 | Head-on view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s |
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| HMAS Australia or HMAS Shropshire (left most), HMAS Hobart (next astern), USS New Orleans, a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, and another Brooklyn-class light cruiser (foreground) entering Subic Bay, Philippines after exercises, circa Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2 | HMAS Australia or HMAS Shropshire (left most), HMAS Hobart (next astern), USS New Orleans, a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, and another Brooklyn-class light cruiser (foreground) entering Subic Bay, Philippines after exercises, circa Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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| HMAS Hobart (foreground) and either HMAS Australia or HMAS Shropshire (background) in exercise in the South China Sea off Subic Bay, Philippines, circa Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2 | HMAS Hobart (foreground) and either HMAS Australia or HMAS Shropshire (background) in exercise in the South China Sea off Subic Bay, Philippines, circa Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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| HMS Glory at Sydney, Australia, 1945 | Hurricane Mark IV fighter-bomber in flight, Aug 1945; note deeper radiator and rockets |
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| Hyuga sunken in shallow water, near Kure, Japan, Jul-Aug 1945 | J7W Shinden, 1940 |
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| Japanese prisoners of war on Guam, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945 | Japanese Type 5 15 cm AA gun, Kugayama, Tokyo, Japan, 1945 |
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