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Ships making smoke screen off Iwo Jima per original caption, but appearance of battleship Colorado or Maryland in a photo of this set indicate it might have been Okinawa; circa 1945, photo 1 of 2	Ships making smoke screen off Iwo Jima per original caption, but appearance of battleship Colorado or Maryland in a photo of this set indicate it might have been Okinawa; circa 1945, photo 2 of 2

United States Army Air Forces Major Byron Trent, commanding officer of the 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group at RAF Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England with a Disney Bomb on a bomb lifting carriage, 1945.	US pilot Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Older in the cockpit of a P-51D Mustang fighter, China, circa Feb-Mar 1945

USS Miami, probably at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, Mar 1945; photo taken from USS West Virginia	WAVES Yeoman 3rd Class Margaret Jean Fusco photographed friends by King Kamehameha's statue in Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii, circa spring 1945

Two (Essex-class) carriers at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 3 Mar 1945. USS Hancock, in front, is in Berth 22 and USS Wasp is in Berth 29. Both ships show very battle worn paint schemes.	Alaska's Chief Quartermaster John P. Overholt took a sun sighting with a sextant, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945; taking notes on the observations was QM3/c Clark R. Bartholomew

Crew of a 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount of Alaska loaded clips into the loaders of the left pair of guns, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945	Gunner's Mate First Class Carrick N. Thomas passed a clip of four 40mm rounds through a hatch in a 40mm handling room of Alaska, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

One of the Alaska's Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes taxiing up to the landing mat streamed alongside, to be picked up by the aircraft crane, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945	One of the Alaska's Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes waited for pickup by the ship's crane, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

USS Shannon steaming through Ulithi anchorage, Caroline Islands, 13 Mar 1945; note USS Flint at left, USS Miami at right, carriers USS Enterprise, USS Intrepid, USS Essex, and USS Bunker Hill, and battleship Tennessee behind Intrepid.	40mm Bofors gunnery drills aboard USS Makin Island, 21 Mar 1945, prior to the Okinawa Campaign

Bernard Montgomery, Arthur Coningham, and Miles Dempsey in conversation, Walbeck, Germany, 22 Mar 1945	Crewmen hoisting one of USS Miami's paravanes while in the Pacific Ocean, 26 Mar 1945

USS Hornet in camouflage Measure 33 Design 3a off Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945; note various aircraft on the flight deck	Ensign Louis Victor Shepard holding binoculars aboard Sanborn, 1945

PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-26 aboard seaplane tender USS Norton Sound, Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945	PBM-5 Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-27 at Tanapag, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Apr 1945. Page 1 of 2.