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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen (in grey uniform) with other officers of USS Sanborn, 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen holding binoculars aboard USS Sanborn, 1945, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen holding binoculars aboard USS Sanborn, 1945, photo 2 of 2 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen with binoculars, circa 1945 |
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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, aboard APA Sanborn, 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, New Caledonia, 1945 |
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| Lieutenant Rudy Holmes standing by a telescope on the bridge of Sanborn, circa 1945 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 1 of 5 |
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| Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 2 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 3 of 5 |
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| Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 4 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 5 of 5 |
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| Man of 34th Construction Battalion working on water purification equipment, Solomon Islands, circa Aug 1945 | Map depicting the proposed invasion routes of Operation Downfall; Japanese defensive positions were as of Aug 1945 |
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| Mugshot of Jürgen Stroop, 1945 | Nagaoka, Japan after American aerial bombing, 1945 |
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| One of the two bomb pits at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands from which the atomic bomb mission to Nagasaki, Japan was launched, Aug 1945 | Osaka, Japan in ruins, circa Aug 1945 |
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| Painting 'Iwo Jima' by Takeo Terada, 1945 | Port side view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s |
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