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422 photos and 7 illustrations tagged 1945, from 29 members of Flickr Commons.

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• SDASM Archives 224 photos & illustrations
• Bergen Public Library Norway 53 photos & illustrations
• Archives of the Law Society of Ontario 26 photos & illustrations
• Archief Alkmaar Commons 20 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 18 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 16 photos & illustrations
• JWA Commons 11 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 8 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 8 photos & illustrations
• Salt Research 6 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 5 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations

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Fire Alarm Pole, Tokyo, 22 November 1945, by Ray Olson

from State Library of New South Wales

• Lins Oz said:

  Not the best wording for this photo. "A photo captioned "Fire Alarm Tokyo" by Ray Olson - taken 22 November 1945". As it currently is - you could read this as an Allied bombing of the city on 22 November 1945 - not the date the photo was taken.

• State Library of New South Wales said:

  Have simplified caption. Thanks. :)

Women's Army workers assembling gun sights at a workshop, Queensland, 1945

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The Women’s Australian National Service (WANS) was inaugurated in 1940. Training for members of the WANS included air raid drills, first aid, basic military drills, and even shooting, signalling, and mechanics. In the period leading up to the formation of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS), the WANS demonstrated that women were capable of filling roles traditionally filled by men. Sir Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for the Army, considered women to be an underutilised resource in Australia’s war effort. Consequently, he approved the formation of the AWAS on 13 August 1941 with the objective of releasing more men into forward areas. Source: www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/awas

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  And work of high merit has been carried out by women members of AEME. Hundreds of AWAS are in the corps, and they are very proud of their AEME colour patch. Some are University graduates. The Army has to rely on many complicated optical instruments for sighting long range artillery, field artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and coast artillery. These instruments range from ordinary binoculars to complex construction. In all-optical predictors of most work the AWAS has shown extraordinary skill. The girls have also been especially useful in instrument making, armature winding, and other work requiring delicacy of touch, quickness of movement, and perseverance. Source: The Arguse, 20 Jan 1945 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1108145

General Sir Andrew Thorne - 2

from Bergen Public Library Norway

• Fredericka said:

  Vikings at sea .... they should still have the dragons head at the bow!