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Crews check on pilot Ens John E Hood in his FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing aboard training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945. Note bent propeller blades.	Crews move quickly to secure an F6F Hellcat as it hangs over the side of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.

Crews move to secure an FM-2 Wildcat after a hard landing on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.	Crews perform maintenance on OS2U Kingfisher catapult planes aboard US battleship South Dakota, probably at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 1945

Cutaway diagram of a Mark 53 VT Radio Proximity anti-aircraft fuze. The on-board wet cell battery was always called the Reserve Battery even though it was the primary power source.	Cutaway of a Mark 53 VT Radio Proximity anti-aircraft fuze showing, top to bottom, the radio transmitter/receiver, miniaturized electronics, power cell, explosive trigger safeties, and triggering charge.

Damaged buildings, Italy, 1945	Damaged buildings, Italy, 1945

Damaged P-47 aircraft after a landing accident, Italy, 1945	Danish collaborators being rounded up, circa 1945

Davao Penal Colony entrance, Philippines, 1940s	De Havilland Mosquito Photo Reconnaissance variant at Akyab Island airstrip, Burma, 1945 (now Sittwe, Myanmar).

Deck crew signals the pilot of an FM-2 Wildcat aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.	Decoy Japanese B6N, Ki-27, and other aircraft emitting false smoke during US air raid, Koshun Airfield, southern Taiwan, date unknown

Destroyed statue of Sigismund III, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, in Warsaw, Poland, 1945	Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 1 of 7

Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 2 of 7	Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 3 of 7

Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 4 of 7; men of APA Sanborn in foreground	Destroyer Cotten steaming at sea, circa 1945, photo 5 of 7; men of APA Sanborn in foreground