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Post-war photo of the hulk of the battleship Hyûga, badly battered and sunk in shallow water near Kure, Japan on 24 Jul 1945. This photo was taken in Sep 1945.	Post-war photo of the hulk of the battleship Hyûga, badly battered and sunk in shallow water near Kure, Japan on 24 Jul 1945. This photo was taken in Sep 1945.	Soviet troops by the Songhua River in Harbin, China, Aug-Sep 1945	Soviet troops with Chinese civilians, northeastern China, Aug-Sep 1945

Street scene in Chongqing, China shortly after Allied victory, Aug-Sep 1945	The devastation of Hiroshima, Japan viewed from the Red Cross Hospital, Aug-Sep 1945	This 11-year-old Japanese girl, a surivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, suffered hair loss, fever, and bleeding gums from radiation poisoning, 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, Aug-Sep 1945

US flag raising at Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands, Sep 1945; note Captain H. B. Grow at left and Japanese officers at right	US flag raising, Mili, Marshall islands, Aug-Sep 1945; note Japanese officers at right of photograph	US flag raising, Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands, Sep 1945	US Navy Chaplain Charles Robinson speaking with a Japanese prisoner of war, Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1945

US Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Sam H. Franklin conducting English lessons for Japanese prisoners of war, Guam, Aug-Sep 1945	Worth Buttram, Leonard Busby, Edwin Fogolman, Lieutenant Samuel Raymond (with white flag), and Edward Patot escorting a Japanese prisoner, Kerama Retto, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945	Yokohama, Japan in ruins, Sep 1945	Yokohama, Japan in ruins, Sep 1945

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity test site during a press visit, New Mexico, United States, 1 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity test site during a press visit, New Mexico, United States, 1 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	11th Airborne Division Reconnaissance Battalion honor guards presented arms as Allied represented arrived to board destroyer Buchanan for battleship Missouri, 2 Sep 1945	Admiral Bruce Fraser arriving aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945