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Corpse of a prisoner of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp on a barbed wire fence, near Weimar, Germany, 1945	Crewmen beginning to fold the wings of a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Air Group 87 immediately after landing aboard USS Ticonderoga, Apr-May 1945 in the central Pacific.

Distant view of a town being contested by defending German troops and attacking American troops, Germany, 1945	Dodge WC54 ambulances and International Harvester M-5 trucks pick up Okinawa casualties from hospital ship AH-8 USS Mercy with a 400-bed capacity, Guam, Mariana Islands, May 1945

Dutch Resistance members celebrating upon hearing the news of Adolf Hitler's death, May 1945	F4U-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-312 lined up at Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945.

F6F Hellcat fighter coming up on the Number 3 flight deck elevator on USS Yorktown (Essex-class), early 1945. Note TBM-3 Avengers and SB2C Helldivers also on deck.	F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft of Fighting Squadron VF-17 on the deck of USS Hornet (Essex-class) off Japan, 1945.

F6F-5 Hellcat fighters lining up for take-off from USS Yorktown (Essex-class), early 1945	F6F-5N Hellcats of Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-541 lined up at Falalop Airstrip, Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, May 1945. Note the nose art, which was rare on Navy or Marine aircraft, especially pin-up girls.

FG-1D Corsair fighter in flight over Okinawa, mid-1945; seen in Mar 1953 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	FG-1D Corsairs from Marine Air Wing 4 at Iwo Jima's Motoyama Airfield No 2, 1945. Note the PB4Y-2 Privateer with the enormously tall tail, the B-29 Superfortress, and Mt Suribachi.

Film star Marilyn Maxwell with a US Marine patient at the Naval Hospital of Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, May 1945	Film star Marilyn Maxwell with wounded (on Iwo Jima, Japan) US Navy Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Charles M. Gibbs, Jr. at the Naval Hospital of Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, May 1945

Five welders at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, 1945.	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and staff officers in a Jeep at Nimitz’ new forward headquarters on Guam, Mariana Islands, Apr-May 1945.

FM-2 Wildcat fighter after a barrier crash aboard USS Sable, Great Lakes, United States, May 1945	Fw 190 A-8 at rest at an airfield after being captured by American forces, May 1945

Gate of the Auschwitz I, Oswiecim, Poland, mid-1945	George Patton having just scolded a tank crew for timidly sandbagging a tank, Germany, May 1945