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Ground crewmen arming an FG-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron 312, the “Checkerboarders,” at Kadena airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Aug 1945	HVAR 5-inch air-to-surface rocket schematic

J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 1 of 4	J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 2 of 4

J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 3 of 4	J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 4 of 4

Japanese 15cm cannon in a cave at Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	Japanese freighter under air attack by two PB4Y Privateer patrol aircraft of US Navy Fleet Air Wing One, 30 miles north of Busan, Korea, Jul 1945

Map of final American operations on Luzon, Philippine Islands, 3 Feb-20 Jul 1945	Map showing the extent of destruction by bombing on Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka, and Nagoya in Japan, 1945

Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945	Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945

Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945	Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945

P-51 Mustang fighters seen through a window of a B-29 Superfortress bomber, 1945	P-51D Mustang fighter of 27th Fighter Squadron of 5th Fighter Group of Chinese American Composite Group, Chichiang Field, southern China, Jul 1945

P-51D Mustangs of the 47th & 531st Fighter Squadrons at South Field, Iwo Jima, May-July 1945. Note also the PB4Y-1 Liberator of Navy Patrol Squadron VPB-116.	P-61 Black Widow aircraft at rest in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, summer 1945

RAF Leading Aircraftman James Shorter and Norwegian civilian Sigrid Skau carrying milk churns at an RAF station of 88 Group near Oslo, Norway, 1945	RAF personnel and Norwegian civilians peeling potatoes at an RAF station of 88 Group, Oslo, Norway, 1945