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1945 Goodyear prototype F2G low altitude interceptor based on the Vought F4U-1D Corsair fitted with a twice as large four-row R7360 Wasp radial engine.	A group of FR-1 Fireball fighters of US Navy squadron VF-66 warming up their engines at Naval Air Station North Island, California, United States, 1945-1946, as seen in Apr 1961 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News; note FM-2 Wildcat fighters	A Japanese civilian in the ruins of Yokohama, Japan, 1945	A Kairyu-class submarine partially submerged, circa Oct-Dec 1945; copied from the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan Report S-01-7, Jan 1946, pg 124, fig 134

A Kairyu-class submarine partially submerged, circa Oct-Dec 1945; copied from the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan Report S-01-7, Jan 1946, pg 129, fig 144	A reassembled German V2 ballistic rocket on a stand for Allied testing at former the Krupps proving grounds at Cuxhaven, Germany, Oct 1945.	A reassembled German V2 ballistic rocket on a stand for Allied testing at the former Krupps proving grounds at Cuxhaven, Germany, Oct 1945. Note smoke beginning to escape from the rocket as part of the launch sequence.	A safe admist bomb damaged landscape,Tokyo or Yokohama, Japan, fall 1945

A sailor from USS Chenango in Sasebo, Japan, Sep-Oct 1945	Abandoned Zero fighter, Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, 1945	Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945	Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945

Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945	Aerial photo of Nagasaki, Japan, late 1945	Aerial view of Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, showing its final configuration with four runways and numerous reinforced aircraft revetments, 1945.	Aerial view of Yokosuka Navy Air Corps Oppama Base, Japan, late 1945

At the United States Naval Academy’s centennial exhibition, the captured U-505 and torpedo boat T35 are on display as war trophies, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, Oct 1945	Automobile converted to burn charcoal, Japan, Oct 1945	Battleship Haruna in her sunken state at Kure, Japan, Oct 1945	Black PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-54 pulled from the water at a base in the Philippines, late 1945.