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[Snautzer01]

1945 Press Photo US Navy Avenger drops a salvo of aerial rockets on Okinawa | eBay

 

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A B-24 in flight.

 

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Marine First Lieutenant Hart H. Spiegal of Topeka, Kansas, tries to communicate using sign language with two tiny Japanese soldiers captured on Okinawa, 17 June 1945. The boy on the left claimed to be "18" while his companion boasts "20" years.

 

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Bombs from a Consolidated Liberator of No. 231 Group explode on a section of railway track running through monsoon-flooded countryside, 17 June 1945, during one of a series of low-level daylight attacks on the Bangkok-Singapore railway south of Chumphon, Thailand.

 

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German Dornier Do 335A at Roth bei Nurnberg circa 17 June 1945. The pilot standing beside the aircraft is Flugkapitan Hans Padell.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Roth

I used to live near there. Also the Luftwaffe airbase in Roth is still in service today by the modern Luftwaffe. I have flown a few times into it.

 

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B-17 damaged in collision with Fw190 in head-on attack

 

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Mustang side views.

 

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Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commanding general, Tenth U.S. Army at Okinawa. He was killed on this day in 1945 during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking United States military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II. He would remain the highest ranking military member to be killed by a foreign armed action until the death of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude during the September 11 attacks in 2001.

 

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His arms form a big V-for-victory gesture as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower appears before 1,000 Washingtonians at a luncheon in his honor at the Statler Hotel, in Washington, D.C. on June 18, 1945.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

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B-25's and Baltimores in Nth Africa

 

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''Eisenhower Day'' Parade, New York, June 19, 1945.

 

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Private Bill Krepper, aged 55 years, of the Pioneer Corps, holding up his 'demob' papers, at the Regent's Park demobilisation centre in London, 19 June 1945.

 

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USS LST-574 beached at Blue Beach, Morotai, 19 June 1945, while a loaded 3-ton truck of the Australian Army's 2,35 General Transport Co. is being backed up the ships ramp. in preparation for Operation Oboe 2.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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Tripoli, 1941