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USS Helm in the western Pacific in a Measure 31 Design 1D paint scheme, late 1944-1945. Note the sailor sitting on top of the upper most gun director.	View of the deck of USS Cod, Feb 1945

Thirteen SB2C Helldiver dive-bomber from Bombing Squadron VB-3 from USS Yorktown (Essex-class) flying to strike Iwo Jima, 22 Feb 1945.	B-24J Liberator “Vera L” and other aircraft from the 27th Bomb Squadron drop 55-gallon drums filled with gasoline on Iwo Jima to burn off the plant growth in advance of the landings to come two weeks later, Feb 1 1945.

Eisenhower at his headquarters, 1 Feb 1945	Map showing the summary of Allied campaigns and Japanese dispositions in the Pacific Ocean as of 1 Feb 1945

Men of D Company, 1st Battalion, British London Irish Rifles regiment preparing to fire a PIAT launcher during a training exercise, Forlì, Italy, 1 Feb 1945	Men of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, circa 1 Feb 1945; Balaskewicz and Dick Gerrity

The chandelier style gondola of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb recovered in the Klamath Mountains between Red Bluff and Hayfork, California, United States 1 Feb 1945. Note the clear battery box on top.	Carriers at anchor in Ulithi Lagoon, Caroline Islands, 2 Feb 1945. Left to right are Wasp (Essex-class), Cabot (Independence-class), Cowpens (Independence-class), and Hornet (Essex-class).

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at Malta aboard USS Quincy, 2 Feb 1945 in advance of the Yalta Conference with Joseph Stalin. With them are their daughters, Anna Boettiger and Sarah Oliver.	Franklin Roosevelt speaking with Harry Hopkins, Saki, Russia, early Feb 1945

German troops on retreat in the Upper Silesia region, Germany (now Poland), 2 Feb 1945; note SdKfz. 10 half-track vehicles towing 7.5 cm PaK 40 guns	German Volkssturm troops in Ratibor, Germany (now Racibórz, Poland), 2 Feb 1945; note Kar98k rifles and Panzerfaust

US President Franklin D Roosevelt surveying troops on Malta in Dwight Eisenhower's personal Jeep 'Husky', 2 Feb 1945; note special modification that allowed Roosevelt to sit straight and tall	USS ABSD-1 with USS P. H. Burnett in the dock, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 2 Feb 1945

German Volkssturm troops with a MG 34 machine gun, Silesia, Germany (now Poland), Feb 1945	Reconnaissance photo of 8th Air Force bomb damage to Berlin, Germany; taken Feb 3 1945

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Molotov at Yalta, Russia (now Ukraine), 3 Feb 1945; note Ford GPW Jeep	US Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr., Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov scanning the sky for the arrival of US President Franklin Roosevelt's aircraft, Crimea, Russia (now Ukraine), 3 Feb 1945