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Private First Class H. L. Miles and Corporal C. V. Corley of US Marines rested during a lull in battle, Iwo Jima, Japan, 15 Mar 1945	US battleship Alabama anchored in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 1 of 5; port broadside view, note independently-elevated guns	US battleship Alabama anchored in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 2 of 5; starboard broadside view, note independently-elevated guns	US battleship Alabama anchored in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 3 of 5; starboard quarter view

US battleship Alabama anchored in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 4 of 5; port quarter view	US battleship Alabama underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 5 of 5; aerial stern view, note empty float plane catapults	USS Saint Paul underway in Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 1 of 2	USS Saint Paul underway in Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 2 of 2

A North American P-51D Mustang of the Vll Fighter Command taking off from Saipan, Mariana Islands for the newly-captured airfield on Iwo Jima, Mar 16, 1945. Note the twin oversized VLR drop tanks.	This Japanese soldier played dead for almost two days half buried in a shell hole holding a live grenade. Promising no resistance, he was given a cigarette before being removed from the hole, Iwo Jima, Mar 16, 1945	Ludendorff Bridge shortly after the collapse, Remagen, Germany, circa 17 Mar 1945	Strike photo taken by aircraft from USS Bunker Hill showing an SB2C Helldiver from Bombing Squadron VB-84 over Miyazaki Airfield on southern Kyushu, Japan, 17 Mar 1945

Carrier USS Bunker Hill on station for strikes against Kyushu, Japan, 18 Mar 1945. Photo was taken from the carrier USS Essex and the battleship USS New Jersey is seen in the right background.	F6F Hellcats of Fighting Squadron VF-45 aboard Independence-class carrier USS San Jacinto off Kyushu, Japan, 18 Mar 1945. Note the open gun access panels in the fighters’ wings.	Jewish chaplain (Rabbi) Captain Manuel Poliakoff of the US Army 29th Infantry Division (center) conducting a memorial service in Schloss Rheydt, the former home of Joseph Goebbels, 18 Mar 1945.	US battleship Iowa in her brand new Measure 22 paint off Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 18 Mar 1945. Note that the rounded areas of the bridge have been squared off.

A B-24M-1-FO Liberator bomber of the 15th Air Force released its bombs on the railyards at Muhldorf, Germany, 19 Mar 1945	Aerial view of the USS Santa Fe close aboard the badly burning USS Franklin, 19 Mar 1945, southeast of Japan. Note Franklin’s buckled forward elevator and the water streams from Santa Fe’s stern onto the Franklin.	Angled view of the carrier Franklin burning and listing badly after bomb hits aft set off more bombs and fueled aircraft, 19 Mar 1945. Note burning fuel pouring off the hangar deck.	B-24J Liberators of the 15th Air Force return from mission to Mühldorf, Germany to their base in Italy, Mar 19 1945. Note the island of Drvenik Veliki, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) below.