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US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton cargo trucks crossing the Rhine River near Mainz, Germany, Mar or Apr 1945; the passengers were possibly German POWs	US battleships New Mexico, Idaho, and Tennessee off Iwo Jima or Okinawa, Feb-Apr 1945	US Civil Affairs Staging Area soldiers with M1 Carbines on a firing range, spring 1945	US Marine playing taps at the American cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945

US Navy African-American cook Pendleton Thompson posed with children recently freed from a Japanese internment camp in the Philippine Islands aboard the SS Jean Lafitte en route for the US, Apr 1945	US Navy Lt Robert S Selby shoots the sun with a sextant inside one of the 40mm gun tubs aboard seaplane tender USS Castle Rock, Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Apr 1945. Note 40mm ammunition racks and PBM Mariners beyond.	US Navy salvaging a Japanese Type A Ko-hyoteki midget submarine from shallows around Okinawa, Japan, 1945	USAAF Capt Raymond H Littge of the 352nd Fighter Group in his P-51D Mustang showing 13 of his 23½ kills, RAF Bodney, Norfolk, England, UK, Apr 1945

View of the invasion beach on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945	Vought F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-451 ‘Blue Devils’ with its wings folded aboard USS Bunker Hill, south of Japan, spring 1945. Note the armorers readying the HVAR rockets and the rocket rack at right	WAVES Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Winifred Perosky X-Rayed USMC Private First Class Harold Reyher, who was wounded at Iwo Jima, Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, United States, spring 1945	WAVES Specialist 3rd Class Nora Scott and Specialist 3rd Class Virginia Chenoweth at work at the control tower of Naval Air Station, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, spring 1945

William Woolfolk with a highway sign near Aachen, Germany, Apr 1945	155mm Gun M1 of US 420th Field Artillery Group set up on Keise Shima near Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	Aerial view of Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Apr 1945	Aerial view of Midway Atoll, 1 Apr 1945

CG-4A Troop Glider being recovered at Wesel, Germany Apr 1 1945	M18 Hellcat of US 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion in support of 2nd Battalion of US 397th Infantry Regiment at Wiesloch, Germany, 1 Apr 1945	Map of Japanese dispositions at Okinawa, Japan and the American Operation Iceberg, 1-8 Apr 1945	Men of the US 10th Army landing on Okinawa, Japan, 1 Apr 1945