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Five PB2Y Coronado patrol planes of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-4 in flight, probably over southern California, Jul 1945.	Forward flight deck of USS Ticonderoga with two Grumman F6F-5 Hellcats spotted and a cruiser, either USS Pasadena or USS Springfield, off the port bow, Jul 1945 as they steamed from Leyte toward Japan.

General Dwight Eisenhower waving to the crowd at a parade, United States, 1945	Ground crewmen arming an FG-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron 312, the “Checkerboarders,” at Kadena airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Aug 1945

HVAR 5-inch air-to-surface rocket schematic	J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 1 of 4

J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 2 of 4	J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 3 of 4

J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 4 of 4	Japanese 15cm cannon in a cave at Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

Japanese freighter under air attack by two PB4Y Privateer patrol aircraft of US Navy Fleet Air Wing One, 30 miles north of Busan, Korea, Jul 1945	Map of final American operations on Luzon, Philippine Islands, 3 Feb-20 Jul 1945

Map showing the extent of destruction by bombing on Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, and Nagoya in Japan, 1945	Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945

Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945	Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945

Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945	P-51 Mustang fighters seen through a window of a B-29 Superfortress bomber, 1945

P-51D Mustang fighter of 27th Fighter Squadron of 5th Fighter Group of Chinese American Composite Group, Chichiang Field, southern China, Jul 1945	P-51D Mustangs of the 47th & 531st Fighter Squadrons at South Field, Iwo Jima, May-July 1945. Note also the PB4Y-1 Liberator of Navy Patrol Squadron VPB-116.