Photos Taken on 03 May 1945 | World War II Database


A Cromwell tank guarding a bridge over the Elbe River, Hamburg, Germany, 3 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.

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

Dixie Kiefer at the change of command ceremony of NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, 3 May 1945; note Commander Wyatt in background	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	German citizens walking past the exhumed bodies from a mass grave near a prisoners of war camp for captured Soviets, Suttrop, Germany, 3 May 1945

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

Prisoners' barracks, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 3 May 1945	Recently liberated prisoners of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp recovering from typhus, Germany, 3 May 1945

Sergeant 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.	Sergeant 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.	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'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