![A Cromwell tank guarding a bridge over the Elbe River, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_vehicle_cromwell3.jpg) | ![After liberating Dachau concentration camp, members of the US 42nd Division inspecting a railroad carriage full of dead prisoners, May 1945.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_56921c492e77a.jpg) |
A Cromwell tank guarding a bridge over the Elbe River, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945 | After liberating Dachau concentration camp, members of the US 42nd Division inspecting a railroad carriage full of dead prisoners, May 1945. |
![British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery hosting a delegation of German officers at his headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany to discuss surrender plans, 3 May 1945.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5dd46e615b688.jpg) | ![Captured Japanese L2D2-3 transport with US markings, Clark Field, Philippine Islands, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_air_skytrain26.jpg) |
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery hosting a delegation of German officers at his headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany to discuss surrender plans, 3 May 1945. | Captured Japanese L2D2-3 transport with US markings, Clark Field, Philippine Islands, 3 May 1945 |
![Cromwell tanks of British 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_vehicle_cromwell2.jpg) | ![Fence, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_61d71de74e6cb.jpg) |
Cromwell tanks of British 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945 | Fence, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945 |
![General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny presenting awards to French, French colonial, and American troops, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 May 1945; note Brigadier General Carl Baehr (front row) and Brigadier General Charles Palmer (second row) also present](/images/imagemagick/tmb_other_none1594.jpg) | ![German civilians using ox carts to transport corpses of prisoners out of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp for burial, Germany, 3 May 1945; note](/images/imagemagick/tmb_61d70ebd42577.jpg) |
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny presenting awards to French, French colonial, and American troops, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 May 1945; note Brigadier General Carl Baehr (front row) and Brigadier General Charles Palmer (second row) also present | German civilians using ox carts to transport corpses of prisoners out of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp for burial, Germany, 3 May 1945; note 'Arbeit macht frei' slogan on the gate |
![Men of the UK 6th Airborne Division greeting the crew of a Russian Army T-34/85 tank near Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_vehicle_t34_1.jpg) | ![Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp cheer as the US 42nd Division moves in to liberate the camp, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_56921d0320c38.jpg) |
Men of the UK 6th Airborne Division greeting the crew of a Russian Army T-34/85 tank near Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, 3 May 1945 | Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp cheer as the US 42nd Division moves in to liberate the camp, 3 May 1945 |
![Prisoners](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5be0937e38ca2.jpg) | ![Recently liberated prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp recovering from typhus, Germany, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_61d70f70a6e9b.jpg) |
Prisoners' barracks, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945 | Recently liberated prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp recovering from typhus, Germany, 3 May 1945 |
![Sgt Frank Bond, a photographer with the USAAF 40th Photo-Recon Squadron, found the streets littered with Japanese Occupation Currency as US forces entered Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), May 3 1945. Photo 1 of 2.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_511605e70463c.jpg) | ![Sgt Frank Bond, a photographer with the USAAF 40th Photo-Recon Squadron, found the streets littered with Japanese Occupation Currency as US forces entered Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), May 3 1945. Photo 2 of 2.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_5116066928d1f.jpg) |
Sgt Frank Bond, a photographer with the USAAF 40th Photo-Recon Squadron, found the streets littered with Japanese Occupation Currency as US forces entered Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), May 3 1945. Photo 1 of 2. | Sgt Frank Bond, a photographer with the USAAF 40th Photo-Recon Squadron, found the streets littered with Japanese Occupation Currency as US forces entered Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), May 3 1945. Photo 2 of 2. |
![Ships in Kerama Retto anchorage near Okinawa, Japan spreading an anti-kamikaze smoke screen, 3 May 1945, as viewed from USS Sargent Bay. Note TBM Avenger and FM-2 Wildcat aircraft in foreground.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_sargentbay2.jpg) | ![Technical Sergeant James Flaha of US 97th Infantry Division band at a funeral for former Flossenbürg Concentration Camp prisoners who had died after liberation shortly after liberation, Germany, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_61d70dd12eb2b.jpg) |
Ships in Kerama Retto anchorage near Okinawa, Japan spreading an anti-kamikaze smoke screen, 3 May 1945, as viewed from USS Sargent Bay. Note TBM Avenger and FM-2 Wildcat aircraft in foreground. | Technical Sergeant James Flaha of US 97th Infantry Division band at a funeral for former Flossenbürg Concentration Camp prisoners who had died after liberation shortly after liberation, Germany, 3 May 1945 |
![Universal carriers of British 1/5th Queen](/images/imagemagick/tmb_vehicle_universalcarrier1.jpg) | ![US Army M24 Chaffee light tank fighting in Salzburg, Austria, early May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_vehicle_m24chaffee2.jpg) |
Universal carriers of British 1/5th Queen's Regiment, 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945 | US Army M24 Chaffee light tank fighting in Salzburg, Austria, early May 1945 |
![Walter Dornberger, Herbert Axter, Wernher von Braun, Hans Lindenberg, and Bernhard Tessmann (partially cropped), Austria, 3 May 1945](/images/imagemagick/tmb_person_dornberger6.jpg) | |
Walter Dornberger, Herbert Axter, Wernher von Braun, Hans Lindenberg, and Bernhard Tessmann (partially cropped), Austria, 3 May 1945 | |