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Oerlikon guns in the catwalk of USS Hornet, Feb 1945	P-47D Thunderbolt of the 353rd Fighter Squadron flown by Maj Glenn T Eagleston, Squadron Commanding Officer and top ace of 9th Air Force with 18.5 kills, Rosieres en Haye Airbase, France, Feb 1945.

P-51D Mustang “Bad Angel” of the 4th Fighter Squadron assigned to Capt Louis Curdes, Feb 1945. Note the interesting scoreboard. See Comment.	Photo taken at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, Feb 1945 showing island damage to USS Ticonderoga as the result of a direct hit by a special attack aircraft off Formosa (Taiwan).

Portrait of Vice-Admiral John S. McCain, Feb 1945. Note the pre-1941 cap emblem with the left-facing eagle. McCain was known to resist 1941 cap update.	PT-245, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 20 (MTBRon 20), southwest Pacific, circa 1945.

PT-330, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), underway in the Philippines, circa 1945. Note the smoke generator canister on the stern.	PT-331, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), in Leyte Gulf, 1945. Note shell splashes in the distance.

SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-81 coming over the fantail of USS Wasp (Essex-class) for a landing, early 1945. Note leading edge wing spoilers, trailing edge flaps, and tailhook all extended.	SB2C-4 Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-9 returning to the USS Lexington (Essex-class) after a strike in support of the US Marines on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Feb 1945.

Series of five photos showing a G4M2E Model 24 Tei bomber releasing a MXY7 Ohka manned special attack rocket during testing, circa 1945	Signalman Third Class Teddy Chalupski wrote a message on the signal bridge while SM3/c Floyd H. Scharp read it with the telescope, aboard Alaska, Feb 1945

Sketch made by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States showing paths of two Japanese special attack aircraft that made direct hits on USS Ticonderoga off Formosa (Taiwan).	Snow covered pots and pans on the tracks inside abandoned Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, Oswiecim, Poland, Feb-Mar 1945; note interior face of the gatehouse

Soviet T-34 tank and crew during the Vistula-Oder Offensive, Poland or eastern Germany, Jan 1945	Superstructure of USS Cod during overhaul, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Feb 1945

TBM Avengers and SB2C Helldivers flying from the carrier Bunker Hill, western Pacific, Feb 1945	The crew of U-3016, Germany, 1945

The squadron commanders of the 306th Bomb Group gathered in front of the base control tower at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, circa 1944.	Troops of a Hitler Youth company, Pomerania, Germany, Feb 1945