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British battleship HMS King George V, 1945	British Boston III bombers in flight, circa 1940s

British Coastal Command Liberator III fitted with a removable air foil at the base of the fuselage for the mounting of eight HVAR air-to-surface rockets that proved very effective against submarines, 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	British Coastal Command Liberator III fitted with a removable air foil at the base of the fuselage for the mounting of eight HVAR air-to-surface rockets that proved very effective against submarines, 1945. Photo 2 of 2.

BTD-1 Destroyer aircraft at rest, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, circa 1945	Building, Italy, 1945

Buildings, Italy, 1945	Buliding, Italy, 1945

Burmese landscape, 1945; photo taken by a member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional)	Burmese landscape, 1945; photo taken by a member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional)

C-46A aircraft at rest, Hong Kong, circa 1945	C-46D Commando of the USAAF Transport Command, 1945-46.

C-47 Skytrain in flight, date unknown	C-47 Skytrain with hook lowered preparing to snatch CG-4 glider as the Control Team stands by in a GPW/MB Jeep, date unknown

Camp set up by 613th Field Artillery Battalion, US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, 1945; the 'basha' was built by Jake Rand and James Guston	Canadian Chevrolet CMP 3-ton truck modified in the field into a wrecker and crane truck, date and location unknown.

Canadian-built PBV-1A Catalina in service as a USAAF OA-10 of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron at Halesworth, England, United Kingdom, 1945	Captain Paul Hall and his damaged P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945

Captain Paul Hall's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at rest at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945; note damaged propellers and A-26 in background	Captain Paul Hall's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at rest at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945; note damaged underbelly