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| Jeep modified to carry wounded on litters, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945 | Kakazu Gorge, Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, mid- or late-1945 |
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| Ki-45 and Ki-61 aircraft, Jeju-do, Korea, Aug 1945 | Kikka prototype jet with rocket-assisted takeoff equipment, Kisarazu Air Field, Japan, Aug 1945 |
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| Kikka prototype jet, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, Aug 1945 | LeMay bombing leaflet; over 5 million of them were delivered to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 33 other Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945, encouraging Japanese citizens to flee from cities for safety |
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| Lieutenant Collins and Chief Pay Clerk Carmine Palumbo of USS Sanborn, circa 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen (in grey uniform) with other officers of USS Sanborn, 1945 |
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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen holding binoculars aboard USS Sanborn, 1945, photo 1 of 2 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen holding binoculars aboard USS Sanborn, 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen with binoculars, circa 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, aboard APA Sanborn, 1945 |
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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, New Caledonia, 1945 | Lieutenant Rudy Holmes standing by a telescope on the bridge of Sanborn, circa 1945 |
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| Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 1 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 2 of 5 |
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| Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 3 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 4 of 5 |
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| Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 5 of 5 | Man of 34th Construction Battalion working on water purification equipment, Solomon Islands, circa Aug 1945 |
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