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Mugford off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2	Mugford off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	Scene on a Iwo Jima beach, as supplies were unloaded and trucked inland, circa late Feb 1945	US Marine rocket-launching trucks in action on Iwo Jima, Japan, 28 Feb 1945; note Mk 7 rocket launcher firing 4.5-inch beach barrage rockets

US Marines Sergeant B. D. Boyant and Corporal Kenneth E. Hales setting up the 4th Marine Division's post office on Iwo Jima, late Feb 1945	US naval transports off Iwo Jima, late Feb 1945	US Marine hauling an ammunition cart on Iwo Jima invasion beach, Japan, 19 Feb 1945	12-year-old Hitler Youth member Alfred Zech from Goldenau, Upper Silesia, Germany posing with his Iron Cross 2nd Class medal, Mar 1945

155 mm Howitzer M1 at Iwo Jima, 1945	A .30 caliber Browning water-cooled machine gun and its crew on Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	A Curtiss SC Seahawk floatplane on USS Nashville’s catapult, 1945. Note the radar pod under the right wing. Missing from the ship is the starboard aircraft catapult that was removed in the Mar 1945 refit at Puget Sound.	A Douglas R4D (C-47) transport plane (center) loading wounded Marines on Iwo Jima's South Field bound for a Navy hospital on Guam, Mar 1945. Note Mount Suribachi to the left.

A F6F-5 Hellcat fighter on the port catapult of USS Randolph, Mar 1945; note Geometric Symbol (G-symbol) on tail.	A German Volkssturm soldier teaching a woman how to operate the Panzerfaust weapon, Germany, Mar 1945	A machine gun nest and its resting crew, Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	A man inspecting the combustion chambers of a German V2 rocket that crashed in East London, Mar 1945. There were other V2s that crashed in London without exploding and much intelligence was gained from them.

A Marine "Oly" (OY-1 Sentinel) landing on Iwo Jima, Mar 1945.	A Mark XIII aerial torpedo with wooden shroud rings fore and aft being loaded from a boat into the starboard bomb bay (in the engine nacelle) of a PBM Mariner patrol aircraft, probably 1945 in the Pacific.	A regimental command post at Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945	A Royal Canadian Navy intelligence officer approaching a downed Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb in the western Canadian provinces, circa Mar 1945. Note the incendiary bombs still attached.