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Starboard side view of a Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft, circa 1940s	TBM-3 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 6 flying from USS Hancock flies over ships of Task Force 58 around Okinawa, Mar-Aug 1945	TBM-3 Avenger with Torpedo Squadron 87 landing aboard USS Ticonderoga, Jun-Aug 1945.	TBM-3E Avengers of Torpedo Squadron VT-86 flying from USS Wasp (Essex-class), late Aug 1945

Two-seat variant of the Do-335 Pfeil (arrow) known as the Ameisenbär (anteater) on a German airfield after capture by the United States Army, mid-1945.	USMC LTs Don Wilson & Gene Youngs of VMF-122 run up their F4U-1D Corsairs prior to receiving an arriving dignitary on Peleliu, Western Caroline Islands, Pacific, Aug 1945.	York C Mark I aircraft of No. 47 Group RAF at RAF Luqa, Malta, 3 Aug 1945	USAAF Colonel Paul Tibbets (center), flight crew member Theodore Van Kirk (third from left), and members of the ground crew for B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 5 Aug 1945

B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' backing over the bomb pit containg 'Little Boy' bomb, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945	B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay' landing at Tinian, Mariana Islands after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945	B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay' at Tinian, Mariana Islands immediately after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945	B-29 Superfortress “Gravel Gertie” with the 882nd Bomb Squadron squats on the runway after suffering a main landing gear collapse, Isley Field, Saipan, Aug 6 1945

Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. waved from the cockpit of Enola Gay, 6 Aug 1945	Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 8	Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 8	Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 3 of 8

Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 4 of 8	Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 5 of 8	Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 6 of 8	Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 7 of 8