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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

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

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

Mugshot of Jürgen Stroop, 1945	Nagaoka, Japan after American aerial bombing, 1945

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

Painting 'Iwo Jima' by Takeo Terada, 1945	Port side view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s

Sanborn officer Ensign Andrew M. Klein, 1945	Sanborn officers Lieutenant (jg) Carl Jackson, Ensign Louis V. Shepard, and Ensign Andrew M. Klein, 1945

Sanborn's officers Lieutenant (jg) Wilson O. Kaden, Lieutenant (jg) Carl Jackson, Ensign Louis V. Shepard, New Caledonia, 1945	SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-86 approaching the carrier Wasp (Essex-class) near Japan, 1945. Note the white radar pod under the wing.

SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-86 approaching the carrier Wasp (Essex-class) near Japan, 1945. Note the white radar pod under the wing.	Several US Navy officers posed by a facility sign on Tulagi, Solomon Islands, circa 1945

Shimonoseki, Japan in ruins, mid-1945	Shizuoka, Japan in ruins, late 1945