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| Strike photo taken by aircraft from USS Bunker Hill showing an SB2C Helldiver from Bombing Squadron VB-84 over Miyazaki Airfield on southern Kyushu, Japan, 17 Mar 1945 | F6F Hellcats of the United States Navy Fighting Squadron VF-12 flying from USS Randolph firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at targets in western Kyushu, Japan, May 1945. |
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| Kyushu J7W1 Type 18 Shinden discovered in a factory at Fukuoka, Japan Oct 10 1945, second of the two built and is now stored at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. |
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