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| LeMay bombing leaflet; over 5 million of them were delivered to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 33 other Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945, encouraging Japanese citizens to flee from cities for safety | Lieutenant Collins and Chief Pay Clerk Carmine Palumbo of USS Sanborn, circa 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen (in grey uniform) with other officers of USS Sanborn, 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen holding binoculars aboard USS Sanborn, 1945, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen holding binoculars aboard USS Sanborn, 1945, photo 2 of 2 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen with binoculars, circa 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, aboard APA Sanborn, 1945 | Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, New Caledonia, 1945 |
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| Lieutenant Rudy Holmes standing by a telescope on the bridge of Sanborn, circa 1945 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 1 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 2 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 3 of 5 |
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| Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 4 of 5 | Lowering 'Fat Man' bomb into a bomb pit at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945, photo 5 of 5 | Man of 34th Construction Battalion working on water purification equipment, Solomon Islands, circa Aug 1945 | Mugshot of Jürgen Stroop, 1945 |
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| Nagaoka, Japan after American aerial bombing, 1945 | One of the two bomb pits at the airfield on Tinian, Mariana Islands from which the atomic bomb mission to Nagasaki, Japan was launched, Aug 1945 | Osaka, Japan in ruins, circa Aug 1945 | Painting 'Iwo Jima' by Takeo Terada, 1945 |
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