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Mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945. Taken by SSgt George R. 'Bob' Caron, the tail gunner on the B-29 'Enola Gay' using a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera.	Thomas Ferebee, bombadier of B-29 Bomber Enola Gay, with Norden bombsight, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945	Kikka prototype jet aircraft with crew, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, 7 Aug 1945	Kikka prototype jet being prepared for its first flight, Kisarazu Air Field, Japan, 7 Aug 1945

Kim Gu and William Donovan, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, 7 Aug 1945	Lieutenant George Elsey, Captain James Vardaman, and Warrant Officer Edwin Hoying aboard USS Augusta, 7 Aug 1945	LtCol LF Maybach, with pen, completing paperwork relating to Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada, seated, Aug 7, 1945, Libby Field, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines.	Small Taiwanese vessel being stafed by PB4Y-2 aircraft of US Navy VPB-104, just off Dongji Island, Pescadores Islands, 7 Aug 1945

USMC PBJ Mitchell pilot Maj Sidney Groff, right, adds the name of Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada to the flight manifest at Libby Field in Davao, Mindanao for transfer to Moret Field, Zamboanga, Philippines, Aug 7, 1945	A Chinese girl from one of the Japanese Army's 'comfort battalions' talking to a British Army officer in Rangoon, Burma, 8 Aug 1945	Hospital ship Tranquillity arrived at Guam with survivors of Indianapolis, 8 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 3; destroyer escort Steele in foreground	Hospital ship Tranquillity arrived at Guam with survivors of Indianapolis, 8 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 3

Hospital ship Tranquillity arrived at Guam with survivors of Indianapolis, 8 Aug 1945, photo 3 of 3	Raymond Spruance, Bruce Fraser, and Chester Nimitz at Nimitz's headquarters on Guam, Aug 1945	Survivors of USS Indianapolis brought to Guam, Mariana Islands via hospital ship Tranquility, 8 Aug 1945	Battleship Massachusetts bombarding Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, 9 Aug 1945

Battleship Massachusetts firing a full main battery salvo at Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, 9 Aug 1945; note projectiles in flight at upper left	Captain McVay of Indianapolis spoke of the sinking at Guam, Aug 1945	Certainly with mixed feelings, Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada watches bombs fall on the Japanese 100th Infantry Division headquarters that he had just led the bombers to, Aug 9, 1945, Mindanao, Philippines	From the radio operator’s position in a USMC PBJ Mitchell, Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada looks for landmarks to find the Japanese 100th Infantry Division headquarters complex, Aug 9, 1945, Mindanao, Philippines