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F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-422 at Ie Shima Airfield, Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, 1945. Note the nose art on both the plane and the belly tank. | Ground crewmen arming an FG-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron 312, the “Checkerboarders,” at Kadena airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Aug 1945 | J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 1 of 4 | J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 2 of 4 |
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J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 3 of 4 | J7W1 Shinden prototype aircraft at rest, Japan, circa Jul 1945, photo 4 of 4 | Oita, Japan under aerial attack, Jul 1945 | P-51D Mustangs of the 47th & 531st Fighter Squadrons at South Field, Iwo Jima, May-July 1945. Note also the PB4Y-1 Liberator of Navy Patrol Squadron VPB-116. |
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Rear view of J7W Shinden prototype aircraft, Japan, 1945 | Strike photo taken by US carrier planes during an air attack on Kure Naval Arsenal, Hiroshima, Japan, Jul 1945. Note anti-aircraft bursts and screening smoke in addition to bomb impacts. | TBM-3 Avenger of Marine Squadron VMTB-242 taxiing past USAAF P-51D Mustangs at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 1, 1945. | US Marine code talker Private Leslie Hemstreet at a shrine in Okinawa, Japan, 1945 |
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US Marine code talker Samnuel Sandoval of III Amphibious Corps Signal Battalion underneath a Torii gate on Okinawa, Japan, 1945 | Remains of General Mitsuru Ushijima and Lieutenant General Isamu Cho, Okinawa, Japan, 5 Jul 1945 | Planes from USS Essex on a raid over Japan on 10 Jul 1945 with Mt Fuji in the background. Plane in foreground is a TBM Avenger and those beyond are SB2C Helldivers. | USS South Dakota's 16-inch guns firing on the city of Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, 14 Jul 1945 |
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Strike photo taken by USS Hancock aircraft showing an attack on the Yokosuka Navy Yard, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 18 Jul 1945. Note bomb splashes. | Camouflaged Japanese destroyers along the shoreline of Kurahashi Jima, Japan, 24 Jul 1945; photo taken by USS Ticonderoga aircraft | Carriers Amagi (near bomb splashes) and Katsuragi (center-right, heavily camouflaged) under attack, Kure, Japan, 24 Jul 1945 | Hyuga under air attack, Kure, Japan, 24 Jul 1945 |