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0,00 €F4U’s and F6F’s fly in formation during surrender ceremonies; Tokyo, Japan. USS MISSOURI [in] left foreground.
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0,00 €General Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind General MacArthur are Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General A. E. Percival.
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0,00 €Two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier LISCOME BAY, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands, are buried at sea from the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport.
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0,00 €Task Force 58 raid on Japan. 40mm guns firing aboard USS HORNET on 16 February 1945
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0,00 €With the captured capital of Naha as a background, Marine Major General Lemuel Shepherd,relaxes on an Okinawan ridge
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0,00 €Photograph of a Marine Aiming at a Japanese Sniper on Okinawa
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0,00 €Smashed by Japanese mortar and shellfire, trapped by Iwo’s treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs and other vehicles of war lay knocked out on the black sands of the volcanic fortress
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0,00 €Across the litter on Iwo Jima’s black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell Japanese positions cleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into Japanese positions inland on the tiny volcanic island.
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0,00 €Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Surbachi Iwo Jima
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0,00 €The gun crews of a Navy cruiser covering American landing on the island of Mindoro, December 15, 1944
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0,00 €U.S. Marine Raiders gathered in front of a Japanese dugout on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Solomon Islands
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0,00 €Photograph of a Marine Returning to a Coast Guard-Manned Assault Transport
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0,00 €After the Marines captured this mountain gun from the Japs at Saipan, they put it into use during the attack on Garapan