Picture of the day.

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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldivers of VB-89 and F4U Corsairs lined up for launch on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Essex-class fleet carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) on 14 August 1945.

 

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F6F-5 Hellcats and Curtiss SB2C Helldivers aboard the US Navy Essex-class fleet carrier USS Randolph (CV-15), 14 August 1945.

 

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The Imperial Japanese Navy's prize battleship, the Yamato [AP]

 

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P-38s aboard USS Nassau (CVE-16) bound for combat in the Pacific, June 1943

 

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August 15, 1935 marks the first flight of the Seversky P-35. The forerunner to the P-47.

 

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No picture but I wanted to post this. 75 years ago today, Aug 15th 1945.

The last aircraft shot down by the U.S. Navy in World War II occurs at 1400 hours when an F6F-5 Hellcat pilot of Fighting Squadron Thirty One (VF-31) in the light aircraft carrier USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) shoots down a "Judy" carrier bomber (Kugisho D4Y Navy Carrier Bomber Suisei) at sea.

 

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Enduring the Unendurable: Japanese civilians listening to Emperor Showa's surrender address outside the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan, 15 August 1945.

 

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For the security, the picture was a show taken after the day.

People stand up to listen to the emperor's speech on the radio.
There was no broadcasting in the palace.

Source:
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P47's

 

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Members of the OSS ''Deer'' Team and Viet Minh at training camp. Allison Thomas stands in the center and is flanked on his left by Vo Nguyen Giap and on his right by Ho Chi Minh.
The little ironies of history...

 

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Oh O K. I'll give you my number if you promise not to give me Herpes.

 

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U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcats #68 and #69 of fighter squadron VF-85, USS Shangri-La (CV-38) in flight near Japan on August 17, 1945.

 

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A-20B Havoc Miss Carriage 41-3268 of the 7th Bomb Group in North Africa 1943

 

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RAF Air Chief Marshal Tedder and his wife pose for a photograph on the steps of the A.O.C's house outside Athens, 18 August 1945. Air Commodore Tuttle is in the center.