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M26 Pershing tanks of the 2nd Armored Division on the streets of Magdeburg, Germany, mid Apr 1945	Maintenance area servicing P-51 Mustangs and one P-47 Thunderbolt of the 35th Fighter Group, Lingayen Airfield, Luzon, Philippines, Apr 1945	Man of 613th Field Artillery Battalion, US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) in a river, Burma, Apr 1945	Map depicting Allied attacks on Honshu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Taiwan, Feb-Apr 1945

Map of landing beaches on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Apr 1945	Marine Corps F4U-1D Corsairs prepare for take-off from their base on Okinawa, 1945. Note the two oversized drop tanks beneath the fuselage.	Marines on Iwo Jima crowd around a newly arrived Boeing F-13 Superfortress (photo reconnaissance variant of the B-29). 47th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustang is in foreground, Mar-Apr 1945.	Member of the 894th Chemical Company inserting the fuse into a tank of napalm slung under the wing of a P-38J Lightning of the 8th Fighter Group at Elmore Airfield, Mindoro, Philippines, Apr 1945.

Member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) George Beal entering a C-47 aircraft bound for China, Lashio Airport, Shan, Burma, Apr 1945	Members of the 894th Chemical Company mixing napalm and pumping it into a tank slung under the wing of a P-38J Lightning of the 8th Fighter Group at Elmore Airfield, Mindoro, Philippines, Apr 1945.	Members of United States Navy Bombing Squadron 87 standing in front of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver at Kahului Naval Air Station, Maui, Hawaii, Apr 1945.	Men of the 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment of Polish 1st Tank Division before a Cromwell tank, Apr 1945; note track links and sections being used as additional armor

Men of US 255th Infantry Regiment moved through Waldenburg, Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Germany, mid-Apr 1945	Minoru Genda and Yoshio Shiga of Japanese 343rd Naval Air Group, Matsuyama Airfield, Japan, spring 1945	Mizushima industrial region of Osaka Prefecture, Japan after American aerial bombing, 1945	MTech Sgt Lloyd M Staggs cleans the bore of a 75mm cannon mounted in the nose of a PBJ-1 Mitchell of Marine Squadron VMB-613, Kwajalein, April 1945. Note also the six Browning M2 .50 cal machine guns.

North American P-51D Mustangs of the 46th Fighter Squadron on Iwo Jima prepare for mission, Mar 1945. Note the twin oversized drop tanks of the Very Long Range (VLR) escorts.	P-51 Mustang fighter 'My Girl' taking off from Iwo Jima, 1945	P-51 Mustang fighter being serviced at an airfield near Frankfurt, Germany, Mar-Apr 1945; note the wrecked German Fw 190 D9 aircraft in foreground	P-51D Mustang in the maintenance area at Poltava Air Base, Ukraine, Apr 1945. This was one of the last stragglers from Operation Frantic that flew its last operational mission seven months earlier.