Aboard the USS Levy (DE-162), Japanese Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara (1898 - 1947) (left) signs a document surrendering control of Wake Island to Marine Brigadier General Lawson H. M. Sanderson (right) and US forces, September 4, 1945. Also pictured is Japanese Paymaster Lieutenant P. Hisao Napasato.

Surrendering control of Wake Island

A P-40 flies down the beach at extreme low level, as Marines practice an amphibious landing somewhere in the Pacific. In order to get this photo, the photographer standing on the beach would have had to have his back to the oncoming P-40 trusting that pilot would do a “buzz job” of the beach and not his hair. 

Low flyover

U.S. Marine Corps (and maybe U.S. Navy) Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in 1942.