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B-29 “Thunderbird” of the 6th Bomb Squadron, 29th Bomb Group going down after being hit by flak while bombing an aircraft factory near Tokyo on August 8, 1945. All but two of the crew were lost in the crash. One was captured, tortured and executed and the other was captured, but survived.
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These were among the last US servicemembers to die in the war, which in some ways is especially tragic. To make it that far and to be so close to making it through only to die the day before the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped. Hostilities ended about a week after this photo was taken and missions were still being flown until then, so lives were still being risked.
 
B-25 Mitchell bomber “Peggy Lou” and other B-25s of the 321st Bomb Group flying from Solenzara, Corsica bombing San Michele railroad bridge in the Brenner Pass region of northern Italy, 10 Mar 1945
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Operation Tidal Wave - an attack by the USAAF, (based in Libya and Southern Italy) on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator in the image was named 'The Sandman' by her crew. It was a very costly operation, on both sides.
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An M3 Lee of “F” Company, 2nd Batalion, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division in Tabourka, Tunisia. Late 1942 or early 1943.
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A FM2 (N-27) aircraft, coming in for a landing on USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95), either missed or broke an arresting hook and crashed into planes parked on the bow. Here N-27 crasher into N-33 pushing it over the bow, 19 December 1944. N-27 crashed into N-33, and both went over the bow. Ensign Woods, pilot of N-33, is seen lying on the deck amid flying wreckage of planes.
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Ensign Woods, pilot of N-33, who was sitting in his airplane, was thrown clear, is being carried by stretcher to sickbay.
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A B-29 Superfortress from the 468th Bombardment group dropping a load of high explosives on Hatto, Formosa on 18 October 1944
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44th Inf Division soldiers Pfc. Thomas Tully, of Ohio, and Pvt. George Bates, of North Carolina, examine a German Flammpanzer 38(t) that was abandoned by German forces outside Houffalize, France. January 13, 1945.
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OTD in 1944. A B-17 Flying Fortress called "Mon Tete Rouge II"
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Failed to return, 4th Dec 44
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John F. Kennedy aboard PT-109 in the South Pacific 1943
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B-29 Superfortress “Sheer Madness- Abortin’ Norton and His Malfunction Ten”
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This day in 1943, American bombers accidentally bombed a residential area in Rotterdam close to shipyards and docks. At least 326 citizens were killed. The bombing remained relatively undiscussed until the 1990s, it is known as the "Forgotten Bombardment"
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USAAF armorers replenish the 0.50cal and 75 mm ammo in a North American B-25H Mitchell
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Those are probably cold weather mobile work platforms for ground crew to service the engines in winter
 
FM-2 Wildcat D-12. It has just crashed into the barrier on USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83). The date is August 27, 1944. The pilot was LT(JG) Bob Hambley of VC-79. He survived the crash
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M10 tank destroyer in an ambush position covers main road of Schiebenhardt (Germany) December30, 1944.
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M10, knocked out by German forces in Aprilia (Italy). March 1944
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9 Apr 1943: Lt Walter Haas in the cockpit of a F2A Buffalo, Miami, Florida, United States, 9 Apr 1943.
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U.S. Army Nurses from Bataan and Corregidor, freed after three years imprisonment in Santo Tomas Interment Compound, climb into trucks as they leave Manila on their way home to the U.S. in February, 1945.
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