28,697 items in this album on 1,435 pages.
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| Captured German officers and men marching under loose American supervision, Austria, 1945 | Captured Hitler Youth children in Berlin, Germany, circa 1945 |
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| Chateau near La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945, photo 1 of 3 | Chateau near La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945, photo 2 of 3 |
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| Chateau near La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945, photo 3 of 3 | 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. |
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| Civilians from Landsberg am Lech, Germany carrying the remains of a Landsberg Concentration Camp prisoner to a burial site, Apr-May 1945 | Civilians posing with a bomb recently disarmed by a US Army bomb disposal unit, La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945 |
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| Civilians, Lille, France, May 1945 | Corpse of a prisoner of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp on a barbed wire fence, near Weimar, Germany, 1945 |
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| Crewmen beginning to fold the wings of a Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat of Air Group 87 immediately after landing aboard USS Ticonderoga, Apr-May 1945 in the central Pacific. | Damaged houses along the Reichsautobahn, western Germany, May 1945 |
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| Distant view of a town being contested by defending German troops and attacking American troops, Germany, 1945 | Dodge WC54 ambulances and International Harvester M-5 trucks pick up Okinawa casualties from hospital ship AH-8 USS Mercy with a 400-bed capacity, Guam, Mariana Islands, May 1945 |
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| Drivers T/5 Sherman Hughes, T/5 Hudson Murphy, and Pfc. Zacariah Gibbs of the 666th Quartermaster Truck Company, US 82nd Airborne Division, May 1945 | Dutch Resistance members celebrating upon hearing the news of Adolf Hitler's death, May 1945 |
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| Dwight Eisenhower and Sun Li-jen, Germany, 1945 | F4U-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-312 lined up at Kadena Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945. |
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| F6F Hellcat fighter coming up on the Number 3 flight deck elevator on USS Yorktown (Essex-class), early 1945. Note TBM-3 Avengers and SB2C Helldivers also on deck. | F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft of Fighting Squadron VF-17 on the deck of USS Hornet (Essex-class) off Japan, 1945. |
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