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Destroyer USS William D Porter lay mortally wounded by a Japanese special attack aircraft that hit the water close aboard without striking the ship but exploded beneath the ship, off Okinawa, 10 Jun 1945	Escort carrier USS Windham Bay with a collapsed flight deck from Typhoon Connie five days earlier. Photo taken at Apra Harbor, Guam, 10 Jun 1945.

FG-1D Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-323 in flight over Okinawa, Japan, 10 Jun 1945	Lidice, Czechoslovakia Jun 1945. A memorial service being held at the site of the mass grave holding the bodies of all 173 of Lidice’s men murdered by the SS on 10 Jun 1942 on the third anniversary of the massacre.

After 110 feet of USS Pittsburgh’s bow broke off during Typhoon Connie, the floating bow section was towed to Guam by fleet tugs USS Munsee and USS Pakana, Jun 1944. Photo 1 of 2.	After 110 feet of USS Pittsburgh’s bow broke off during Typhoon Connie, the floating bow section was towed to Guam by fleet tugs USS Munsee and USS Pakana, Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2.

Damage from Typhoon Connie to the forward flight deck of USS Bennington as seen after the ship’s arrival in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 12 Jun 1945. Photo 1 of 3.	Damage from Typhoon Connie to the forward flight deck of USS Bennington as seen after the ship’s arrival in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 12 Jun 1945. Photo 2 of 3.

Damage from Typhoon Connie to the forward flight deck of USS Bennington as seen after the ship’s arrival in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 12 Jun 1945. Photo 3 of 3.	A US Marine observing ruined buildings in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 13 Jun 1945

M4 Sherman tanks of US 769th Tank Battalion moving toward Hill 89 on Okinawa, Japan, mid-Jun 1945	District of Tarumiza at Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan under attack by aircraft of 499th Bomb Squadron, US 345th Bomb Group, 17 Jun 1945

Browning M1917A1 machine gun crew of US 96th Division on the top of Yaeju-Dake Hill, Okinawa, Japan, 18 Jun 1945; note yellow cloth front lines marker on right	Mugshots from Hermann Göring's US Army detention report, 22 Jun 1945

Raising the US flag on Okinawa, Japan, 22 Jun 1945	Detention report with mugshots of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Jun 1945

Georgy Zhukov at the Red Square victory parade, Moscow, Russia, 24 Jun 1945; note Chinese attaché Guo Dequan in background	Ivan Konev (front row, left) and Konstantin Rokossovsky (front row, center) at the Red Square victory parade, Moscow, Russia, 24 Jun 1945

Ivan Konev leading the 1st Ukrainian Front at the Red Square victory parade, Moscow, Russia, 24 Jun 1945	Konstantin Rokossovsky on a horse before Saint Basil's Cathedral at the Red Square victory parade, Moscow, 24 Jun 1945