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Female US Marine, Quantico, Virginia, United States, circa 1945	Female US Marines in self-defense training, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, United States, circa 1945

Female Yugoslavian communist fighters, 1945	FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-323 flying over Okinawa, Japan, 1945

Film director Flight Lieutenant J. E. Boulting and WAAF Leading Aircraftwoman Doreen North discussing the set-up of a shot in a scene at a railway station from 'Journey Together' at No. 1 RAFFPU at RAF Stanmore Park, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1945	Finnish Army Commander-in-Chief General Erik Heindrichs at his desk, Finland, 1945

Firebrand aircraft in flight, 1940s	Five African-American US Coast Guardsmen manning a 20-mm Oerlikon AA autocannon aboard a frigate in the southwest Pacific, date unknown. L to R: J Wesley, L Haywood, W Watson, W Morton, O Lane

Five PBJ-1J Mitchells of Marine Squadron VMB-614 in a training flight over an undisclosed location in the US, 1944-1945. Note radomes on starboard wingtips.	Fleet carrier USS Intrepid listing due to heavy seas, date and location unknown

Flight crews gather around a PBY-5A Catalina patrol plane on a Marsden Mat seaplane ramp in the Aleutians, 1944-45. Note oil splatters on the hull from the notoriously leaky radial engines.	Flight deck and controls of a B-29 Superfortress. Note the security blanket over the bomb sight.

FM-2 Wildcat prepared to launch off USS Makin Island, 1945	FM-2 Wildcat rolls down the flight deck on the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1945.

FR-1 Fireball fighter in flight, 1945, seen in Dec 1945 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News; note HVAR rockets under wings	FR-1 Fireball fighter of US Navy squadron VF-66 at rest, Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945

FR-1 Fireball fighter of US Navy squadron VF-66 in flight, 1945	FR-1 Fireball fighters of US Navy squadron VF-66 at rest, Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945

French commandos in Dutch East Indies, circa 1945	Front angle close-up of Type 4 Chi-To medium tank with Type 5 75-millimeter tank gun, Japan, 1944-1945