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Aerial photo taken by aircrews from USS Yorktown (Essex-class) of prisoner of war camps in Japan, Aug or Sep 1945. Note rooftop markings by POWs.	Aerial photo taken by USS Hancock aircraft showing the Japanese battleship Nagato off the Yokosuka Navy Yard, Tokyo Bay, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945	Aerial view of barren Tokyo, Japan, circa Aug-Sep 1945	American captives at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3 in Hokkaido, Japan waving at a circling US aircraft, 1945

American captives at Hakodate Branch Camp No. 3, Hokkaido, Japan, 1945	American correspondents interviewed Toguri, Sep 1945	Art vendor, Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1945	Captured A6M3 Model 22 Zero fighter, near Buin, Bougainvile, Sep 1945

Captured Japanese A6M Zero fighter at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Sep 1945; note missing stabilizer on aircraft and jeep in background	Captured Junkers Ju-290 heavy transport aircraft with German markings but with US tail number FE3400 flying over the United States in late 1945. This plane became a common sight at postwar air shows.	Captured Type 4 Chi-To medium tank, Japan, late-1945	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.