Sailors direct a rocket-armed TBM Avenger on the flight deck of USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) during operations off Kyushu, Japan in September 1945. (U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.) (U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.)
Tag - 1945
A Churchill tank from the 9th Royal Tank Regiment, 31st Tank Brigade advances toward Goch, Germany in February 1945. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
A formation of Bristol Beaufighter TF.X aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force fly over the Scottish coast in 1945. (Imperial War Museums Photograph.)
A U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber takes off for a mission over Luzon, Philippines in 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Sailors on the destroyer USS Ault (DD-698) watch a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Fighting Squadron 87 (VF-87) land on the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) in July 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Thumper” appears at Boeing Plant No. 2 in August 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
An M10 Tank Destroyer of the 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion advances in support of the U.S. 10th Mountain Division in Italy during the campaign in the North Apennines. (U.S. Archives Photograph.)
USS Hornet ahead of USS Bon Homme Richard during western Pacific gunnery practice, June 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy’s USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), a Casablanca-class escort carrier, is photographed at anchor in February 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) off the coast of New York City, January 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)