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War in the Pacific: 1945

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• Six men raise the Stars & Stripes atop Mt. Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. February 23, 1945.
• Landing craft of the US Sixth Fleet transport first wave of invading troops to Iwo Jima—February 16, 1945. Mt. Suribachi is seen in the background.
• Wounded Marines wait to be evacuated during the battle for Iwo Jima.
• Corsair fighter targets a Japanese stronghold on during the battle for Okinawa. April 1945
• Over 300 Japanese soldiers were captured by the Sixth Marine Division in the last 24 hours of the battle for Okinawa. June 1945.
• Marines pass through a village during the battle for Okinawa. April 1, 1945.
• Damage to an American warship from a "Kamikaze" hit received off Okinawa on 9 May 1945.
• Smoke billowed 20,000 feet above the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945.
• Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
• Japanese delegates aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) just before their surrender on September 2, 1945.
• V-J Day. Times Square, New York. August 15, 1945.