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Carol Hebble in a Jeep, Page Field, Florida, United States, 1945	Chinese Army General Chen Cheng during a victory celebration immediately after the Japanese surrender, China, Aug 1945

Civilians and two USS Chenango crewmen lining up for trolley, Ginza Street, Sasebo, Japan, Sep 1945	Civilians at a rail station, Hiroshima, Japan, Sep 1945

Close up of a Japanese 5kg Type A incendiary bomb hanging from a ballast ring of a Fu-Go balloon bomb, mid-1945. Note the two blowout plugs in the ballast ring supporting this bomb.	Close-up of a TBM-3 Avenger aircraft of Composite Squadron 41 from USS Makin Island enroute to Wakayama, Japan, Sep 1945

Cockpit of a wrecked G4M bomber, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Sep 1945	Commodore Dixie Kiefer at his desk at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, 1945. Note the cast on his arm from injuries sustain several months earlier aboard USS Ticonderoga.

Crew members of the submarine USS Sailfish gather on the after deck in Groton, Connecticut, United States in Sep 1945 still celebrating the news that Japan had surrendered.	Demobilized Japanese soldiers and civilians aboard a train in Hiroshima, Japan, Sep 1945

Demobilized Japanese soldiers and civilians aboard a train in Hiroshima, Japan, Sep 1945	Demobilized Japanese soldiers and civilians at a rail station, Japan, Sep 1945

Demobilized Japanese soldiers at a train station in Hiroshima, Japan, Sep 1945	Department heads at the United States Navy’s Naval Torpedo Station, Alexandria, Virginia posing with the last Mark XIV torpedo produced at the facility, Aug 1945.

Desolated landscape of Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic detonation, post-war, photo 1 of 2; note Paul Tibbet's autograph	Desolated landscape of Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic detonation, post-war, photo 2 of 2

Destroyed building in Hiroshima, Japan, 1945	Destroyed building in Hiroshima, Japan, 1945

Devastated Osaka, Japan, circa Sep 1945; note Nankai Namba Station at far left of photo, Matsuzakaya Osaka store (now Takashimaya Higashi Annex) at bottom right edge, and Osaka Kabukiza Theater at center	Disabled Japanese aircraft at an airfield near Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1945