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Captain Edward Steichen, head of the United States Navy’s photographic unit, interacting with children on Guam, Mariana Islands, May 1945.	Citation from the Secretary of the Navy authorizing the Navy Unit Commendation for the USS Tabberer and her entire compliment of men for their heroic and persistent rescue work following Typhoon Cobra.

Dwight Eisenhower and Sun Li-jen, Germany, 1945	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and staff officers in a Jeep at Nimitz’ new forward headquarters on Guam, Mariana Islands, Apr-May 1945.

George Patton having just scolded a tank crew for timidly sandbagging a tank, Germany, May 1945	Mitscher and Commodore Arleigh A. Burke aboard USS Randolph off Okinawa, May 1945

Mugshot of Martin Gottfried Weiss, 1945	Official White House Portrait of US President Harry S. Truman, painted by Greta Kempton in 1945

Portrait of General George Patton, 1945	Portrait of Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan, Apr-Jul 1945; note the US Navy Service Dress Grey uniform

Portrait of Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, circa 1945	Portrait of Tadeusz Komorowski, May 1945

Prime Minister Tran Trong Kim of the puppet state Empire of Vietnam with his cabinet ministers, 1945	Sun Li-jen inspecting troops of US 17th Airborne Division, Germany, 1945

Sun Li-jen sightseeing in Heidelberg, Germany, 1945	Vice Admiral Mitscher and Commodore Burke aboard carrier Randolph off Okinawa, Japan, 1945, photo 1 of 2

Vice Admiral Mitscher and Commodore Burke aboard carrier Randolph off Okinawa, Japan, 1945, photo 2 of 2	Charlotte Pilquet, Ruth Astrosini, Juana Bormann, Gertrude Feist, Gertrude Sauer, and Ida Förster in captivity, 2 May 1945

Helmuth Weidling (left) and other German generals in Soviet captivity, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945	Hitler's death as reported by the 2 May 1945 issue of US Army magazine Stars and Stripes