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Jewish chaplain (Rabbi) Captain Manuel Poliakoff of the US Army 29th Infantry Division (center) conducting a memorial service in Schloss Rheydt, the former home of Joseph Goebbels, 18 Mar 1945.	Map of defensive installations on Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 Feb-19 Mar 1945

Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith and Colonel Dudley S. Brown surveying wreckages at the Iwo Jima invasion beaches, circa Mar 1945	M3 Lee tank passing a burning building in a Burmese village south of Mandalay, Burma, 20 Mar 1945.

Men of US 535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion checking their positions in Remagen, Germany, Mar 1945	Buffalo tracked landing vehicles of UK 4th Royal Tank Regiment being transported forward in preparation for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 21 Mar 1945

Louis Mountbatten addressing men of British Royal Armoured Corps atop a captured Japanese 75mm gun, Mandalay, Burma, 21 Mar 1945	Map depicting the Allied advance to the Rhine River in West-Central Germany, Eastern France, and the Low Countries, 8 Feb-21 Mar 1945

Bernard Montgomery, Arthur Coningham, and Miles Dempsey in conversation, Walbeck, Germany, 22 Mar 1945	1st Squad of A Company of US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion crossing the Rhine River in Germany by an US Navy landing craft, 23 Mar 1945

A truck crossing the Rhine River in Germany, 23 Mar 1945; this was the second bridge built by US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion	British Diamond T Model 980 tractor towing a trailer loaded with a Churchill tank during preparations for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 23 Mar 1945

Marines and Army ground crews look over the first Sikorsky R-4 helicopter to land in the fighter strip on Iwo Jima, Mar 23, 1945.	Men of B Company of US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion building the first bridge across the Rhine River, Germany, 23 Mar 1945

US 25th Division squad leader pointing at a suspected Japanese position at the edge of Baleta Pass, near Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 23 Mar 1945	A British Bedford QL truck leaving a raft after crossing the Rhine River near Feldwick,North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 24 Mar 1945

A truck-mounted 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun of UK 15th (Scottish) Division crossing the Rhine River near Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 24 Mar 1945	Aerial photograph of a damaged German town during Rhine River area fighting, 24 Mar 1945; taken by crew of B-24 Liberator bomber of 2nd Air Division, US 8th Air Force

British paratroopers operating an M22 Locust tank as they prepared to cross the Rhine as part of Operation Varsity, Germany, late Mar 1945; note Horsa troop glider	C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft releasing hundreds of paratroopers and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel region in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany during Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945