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Private L. H. Johnson and Sergeant D. R. Fairborn of 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion with a PIAT launcher, Lembeck, Germany, 29 Mar 1945	Soldiers of 44th Division, US 7th Army fighting in Mannheim, Germany, 29 Mar 1945; note bazooka and M1 Garand rifles

Soviet M-17 vehicles in the streets of Danzig, late-Mar 1945	Two young German soldiers, one injured, the other dead, east of the Rhine River, Germany, late Mar 1945

DShK M1938 heavy machine being used as a tank-mounted weapon by a Soviet soldier in Danzig, late Mar 1945	High Commissioner Lord Gort and newspaper publisher Gershon Agron in conversation, 30 Mar 1945

Japanese 120mm gun protuding from a cave opening, Iwo Jima, Japan, circa Mar 1945	US Army African-American Privates George Cofield and Howard Davis manning an anti-aircraft weapon near a bridge under construction over the Rhine River, 30 Mar 1945

USS Makin Island at anchor at Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 31 Mar 1945	3 TBM-1C Avengers and 2 FM-2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron 69 readying for take-off from escort carrier USS Mission Bay on an anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic, spring 1945.

45th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustangs flying from Iwo Jima flying with a B-29 Superfortress from the 498th Bomb Group, Mar-Apr 1945	45th Fighter Squadron P-51D Mustangs flying from Iwo Jima flying with a B-29 Superfortress from the 498th Bomb Group, Mar-Apr 1945

A French Jew at a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, Apr 1945	A group of US Navy flight nurses walking away from a Douglas R5D Skymaster aircraft, Guam, Marianas, Apr 1945

A Marine Corps F4U Corsair flying over Marine ground troops during a close air ground support training exercise, 1945. Note M1 Rocket Launcher (or ‘Bazooka’) and M2 Flame Thrower.	A pile of human remains at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, Apr 1945

Aachen in ruins, Germany, Apr 1945, photo 1 of 3	Aachen in ruins, Germany, Apr 1945, photo 2 of 3

Aachen in ruins, Germany, Apr 1945, photo 3 of 3	Aerial view of Tokashiki Island, Okinawa, Japan, 1945