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| Starboard side view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s | Structures on either side of Kencho Dori in ruins, Okayama, Japan, Aug 1945; the area in lower right corner of the photograph was the Okayama Women's Commercial School (now the Prefectural Library), and the surviving major structures in the background were the Tenmaya department store (left), Chugoku Bank building (center), and the Japanese Red Cross Okayama Hospital (right) |
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| TBM-3 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 6 flying from USS Hancock flies over ships of Task Force 58 around Okinawa, Mar-Aug 1945 | TBM-3 Avenger with Torpedo Squadron 87 landing aboard USS Ticonderoga, Jun-Aug 1945. |
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| TBM-3E Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-86 flying from USS Wasp (Essex-class), late Aug 1945 | Technician filling external crevices of 'Fat Man' bomb with putty in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945 |
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| Three of Sanborn's enlisted crew members, circa 1945 | Town of Ie viewed from the top of Mount Gusuku, with Red 3 and Red 4 beaches beyond, Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, 1945 |
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| Two men at the Operation Trinity crater, circa Aug 1945 | Two-seat variant of the Do-335 Pfeil (arrow) known as the Ameisenbär (anteater) on a German airfield after capture by the United States Army, mid-1945. |
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| United States Navy Third Fleet outside Tokyo Bay, Japan, Aug 1945 soon after the Japanese surrender. Visible are at least five fleet carriers, three light carriers, three battleships, and numerous escorts. | US Navy Cmdr Marshal Austin welcoming submariners Lt Cmdr Philip Eckert and Lt (jg) William Wingate, both of USS Gar, to Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Aug 1945 |
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| US Navy electrician's mate spraying 'Fat Man' bomb with plastic paint in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 1 of 3 | US Navy electrician's mate spraying 'Fat Man' bomb with plastic paint in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 2 of 3 |
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| US Navy electrician's mate spraying 'Fat Man' bomb with plastic paint in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 3 of 3 | US Navy sailors Roscoe Wells and Bernard Manning holding USS Gar's battle flag, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Aug 1945 |
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| US personnel checking an atomic bomb casing, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1945 | USMC LTs Don Wilson & Gene Youngs of VMF-122 run up their F4U-1D Corsairs prior to receiving an arriving dignitary on Peleliu, Western Caroline Islands, Pacific, Aug 1945. |
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| USS Missouri and USS Iowa en route to Japan, Aug 1945 | USS San Diego in camouflage Measure 33, Design 24d, off Japan, Aug 1945 |
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