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Annotated photo of the payload components of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb, circa Aug 1945.	Atomic bomb 'Fat Man' on a transport carriage, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945	Australian soldiers posing with a captured Japanese Type 92 tankette and wrecked No. 42 Squadron RAAF Catalina aircraft, Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945	B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs on Japan, circa Jul-Aug 1945

B-29 Superfortress “Sweet Thing” of the 678th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group based at Tinian, Mariana Islands, circa Jul 1945 (ser# 44-70108).	B-32 Dominator bomber in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947	B-32-1-CF Dominator aircraft in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947	Bombing leaflet dropped on Japanese cities 72 hours before a bombing strike encouraging citizens to flee. Over 5 million of them were delivered to 35 Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945.

British Royal Navy T-class destroyer, probably HMS Terpsichore (D48), sailing alongside USS Wasp (Essex-class) of US Navy Task Group 38.3 off Japan Aug 1945; note USS Randolph in background	Captured U-977 at Mar del Plata, Argentina, mid-1945	Commander A. Francis Birch (painting L-11) and Norman Ramsey with 'Little Boy', Tinian, Mariana Islands, Jul-Aug 1945	Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan and Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, summer 1945

Crewmen of the USS Wasp (Essex-class) celebrate news of the war’s end by sunbathing on the flight deck off Japan, mid Aug 1945; days before this section of the flight deck was badly damaged in a typhoon.	Damaged Town Hall of Poznań, Poland, mid-1945	Dr. Norman Ramsey signing 'Fat Man' bomb while an electrian's mate applied plastic paint, in front of Assembly Building Number 2, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945	F4U Corsairs of Fighting Squadron VBF-86 flying from USS Wasp (Essex-class), Aug 1945

F6F-5 Hellcat, TBM-3 Avengers, and SB2C-4E Helldivers of Carrier Air Group 87 aboard Ticonderoga, Jun-Aug 1945.	FG-1D Corsair fighter of US Navy squadron VBF-88 in an elevator aboard USS Yorktown, Aug 1945	FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-213 assigned to Escort Carrier USS Saidor flying a training flight in Hawaii, 1945	Fw 190 D-9 'Langnasen-Dora' aircraft at rest at an airfield, captured by Americans, post-European War; note P-47 fighters in background