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Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945

Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945

Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945; note National Diet Building	Accused Japanese war criminals under guard while awaiting transfer to Stanley Prison, Hong Kong, 29 Sep 1945

Dodge WC54 and WC64 KD 3/4-ton field ambulances standing by C-46 Commando aircraft at Clark Field, Manila, Philippine Islands, 29 Sep 1945	Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong celebrating the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chongqing, China, Sep 1945

Japanese Type 97 Te-Ke tankette on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 1945	Japanese-American soldiers marching in the V-J Day parade, Livorno, Italy, Sep 1945

US Marines entering Tianjin, China, 30 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	US Marines entering Tianjin, China, 30 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2

Victory celebration in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sep 1945	1945 Goodyear prototype F2G low altitude interceptor based on the Vought F4U-1D Corsair fitted with a twice as large four-row R7360 Wasp radial engine.

A group of FR-1 Fireball fighters of US Navy squadron VF-66 warming up their engines at Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945-1946, as seen in Apr 1961 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News; note FM-2 Wildcat fighters	A Japanese civilian in the ruins of Yokohama, Japan, 1945

A Kairyu-class submarine partially submerged, circa Oct-Dec 1945; copied from the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan Report S-01-7, Jan 1946, pg 124, fig 134	A Kairyu-class submarine partially submerged, circa Oct-Dec 1945; copied from the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan Report S-01-7, Jan 1946, pg 129, fig 144

A reassembled German V2 ballistic rocket on a stand for Allied testing at former the Krupps proving grounds at Cuxhaven, Germany, Oct 1945.	A reassembled German V2 ballistic rocket on a stand for Allied testing at the former Krupps proving grounds at Cuxhaven, Germany, Oct 1945. Note smoke beginning to escape from the rocket as part of the launch sequence.