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F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter of Night Fighter Squadron 90 based on the carrier USS Enterprise, 1945. Note radome on left wing and flame dampeners on exhaust port.	Fallen German machine gunner, 1944-1945

Fallen German Panzerschreck rocket launcher crew, 1944-1945	Fallen German soldiers, 1944-1945

Fallen infantryman, France, 1944-1945	Fantail of USS South Dakota, probably at Ulithi fleet anchorage, Caroline Islands, 1945; note the No 3 16-in turret swung to port to clear way for the band

Female Soviet snipers with Mosin-Nagant rifles, circa 1940s	Female US Marine Private First Class Vera M. Cooper working on a carburetor, circa 1945

Female US Marine Sergeant Doris Hayes and nurse Alice Horton at a blood donation drive, United States, circa 1945	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, date unknown

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.