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C-47 Skytrain in flight, date unknown	C-47 Skytrain with hook lowered preparing to snatch CG-4 glider as the Control Team stands by in a GPW/MB Jeep, date unknown	Camp set up by 613th Field Artillery Battalion, US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), Burma, 1945; the 'basha' was built by Jake Rand and James Guston	Canadian Chevrolet CMP 3-ton truck modified in the field into a wrecker and crane truck, date and location unknown.

Canadian-built PBV-1A Catalina in service as a USAAF OA-10 of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron at Halesworth, England, United Kingdom, 1945	Captain Paul Hall and his damaged P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945	Captain Paul Hall's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at rest at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945; note damaged propellers and A-26 in background	Captain Paul Hall's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at rest at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945; note damaged underbelly

Captain Rolf Larson of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), probably Burma, 1945	Captured German 15 cm NbW 41 rocket launcher, 1944 to 1945	Captured German Tiger II heavy tank with US Army markings, 1944-1945	Captured Japanese G4M bomber being evaluated by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit based at Eagle Farm Airbase, Brisbane, Australia, 1945. Note the exaggerated USAAF markings, using the rudder stripes that had been eliminated 3 years earlier.

Captured Japanese Ki-102 fighter with USAAF markings, 1945	Captured Japanese Ki-44 fighter being evaluated by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit based at Eagle Farm Airbase, Brisbane, Australia, 1945. Note the exaggerated USAAF markings, using the rudder stripes that had been eliminated 3 years earlier.	Captured Japanese Ki-84 fighter being evaluated by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit based at Eagle Farm Airbase, Brisbane, Australia, 1945. Note the exaggerated USAAF markings, using the rudder stripes that had been eliminated 3 years earlier.	Captured Japanese N1K fighter being evaluated by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit at Eagle Farm Airbase, Brisbane, Australia, 1945. Note the exaggerated USAAF markings, using the rudder stripes that had been eliminated 3 years earlier.

Captured Ki-45 aircraft with American markings in flight, 1945, photo 1 of 3	Captured Ki-45 aircraft with American markings in flight, 1945, photo 2 of 3	Captured Ki-45 aircraft with American markings in flight, 1945, photo 3 of 3	Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim leaving the Presidential Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 1940s