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A Japanese phosphorous bomb explodes beneath a B-29 bomber of the 21st Bomber Command, during an U.S. Army Air Forces raid on Mitsubishi and Kawasaki aircraft plants at Kakamigahara, Japan, in June 1945. (AP Photo)

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A Japanese destroyer is sinking after being hit by a torpedo, in June 1942, photographed through the periscope of the USS Nautilus or USS Wahoo. (AP Photo)

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F4U and F6F fighter planes are flying in formation over the USS Missouri, while the surrender ceremonies to end World War II take place aboard the U.S. Navy battleship, on September 2, 1945 (AP Photo)

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Alerted crewmen of an M-51 antiaircraft battery are silhouetted against a sky streaked with vapor trails, as they watch Allied and German fighter planes engaged in a heavy dogfight, on December 25, 1944, midair over the village Puffendorf, near Aachen, Germany. (AP Photo)

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U.S. Navy crewmen are watching as an B-25 bomber takes off from the USS Hornet to participate in the initial air raid on Japan's capital Tokyo, on April 18, 1942. (AP Photo)

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Under way in the South Pacific in 1944, the 16-inch guns of the USS Iowa fire during a battle drill. (AP Photo)

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A crowd gathers to celebrate V-E Day at Piccadilly Circus in London, England, on May 8, 1945. The statute of Eros in the center of the square has been boarded up throughout the war for protection from bombing. (AP Photo)

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American soldiers carrying fixed bayonets march up Broadway in close formation in a ceremony for the U.S. war loan parade in New York City on April 15, 1943. New York City contributed $25,000,000 to the $13,000,000,000 nation-wide war bond campaign. (AP Photo)

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The battleship USS New Jersey slides down the ways at the Philadelphia, Penn., Navy Yard on Dec. 7, 1942. (AP Photo)

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This is an undated photo of a propaganda poster encouraging women to further the World War II effort by becoming nurses. (AP Photo)

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This is an undated aerial view of the USS Arizona battleship at sea in the Pacific with the crew on deck. (AP Photo)

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People crowd Times Square at 42nd Street in New York City on May 8, 1945, as the VE Day celebration continues into the night. The dimout and the brownout of the "Great White Way" have been replaced once more by the bright lights of victory. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)

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American and Canadian troops on the aft decks of the Queen Mary as she steamed into New York harbor on July 11, 1945 at the end of her voyage from Europe. This photo was taken from a US Coast Guard helicopter. (AP Photo)

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