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Damaged LVT(A)-4 on the beach of Iwo Jima, Feb-Mar 1945	Destroyed equipment on the beach of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945. Note the overturned DUKW and two wrecked LCVPs.

Destroyed tram cars being used as roadblocks in Berlin, Germany, Mar 1945. Note the Framo three-wheeled delivery truck passing through.	F4U Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-222, Guiuan Airfield, Samar, Philippines, 1945. Note the oversized squadron decals on the cowls.

Five-Inch High-Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVAR) on an Essex-class aircraft carrier’s bomb elevator, probably the USS Yorktown, ready for being mounted on an airplane, circa 1945.	Flag-raising ceremonies at US Marine Headquarters on Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

Four American Marines carried a wounded comrade, Iwo Jima, Mar 1945	German troops fighting in a ruined factory in northwestern Germany, Mar 1945; note Panzerfaust

German Volkssturm soldier demonstrating how to use a Panzerfaust, Berlin, Germany, spring 1945	German Volkssturm soldier firing a Panzerfaust in training, Germany, Mar 1945

German Volkssturm soldier training with a Panzerfaust, Berlin, Germany, spring 1945	German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfäuste at the S-Bahn station on Hermannstraße in the Neukölln section of Berlin, Germany, Mar 1945

German women building defensive positions, Berlin, Germany, Feb-Mar 1945	Hand of a buried Japanese soldier showing through the remains of a collapsed defensive position, Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

Heinz Guderian presenting awards to German soldiers, Mar 1945	Hulk of a Japanese Type 89 127mm dual-purpose gun, Kwajalein, March 1945. This type of gun was a very common air defense weapon in the Central Pacific Theater.

Japanese POW taken at Iwo Jima, Mar 1945	Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft at rest, circa 1940s

Lieutenant General Helmuth Reymann inspecting defenses, Berlin, Germany, Mar 1945	Lieutenant General Holland Smith congratulating Major General Graves B. Erskine, Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945