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Map depicting the crossing of the Rhine, 22-28 Mar 1945	Men of the British 5th Dorsetshire Regiment crossing the Rhine River into Germany in a Buffalo tracked landing vehicle, 28 Mar 1945

Men of the UK 1st Commando Brigade manning two Vickers medium machine guns just east of the Rhine River outside of Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between 24-31 Mar 1945	War Correspondent Ted Stanford of The Pittsburgh Courier interviewing African-American US Army Sergeant Morris O. Harris of the 784th Tank Battalion of the 9th Army, 28 Mar 1945

Battleship Colorado bombarding Okinawa, Japan, 29 Mar 1945; cropped photo	British Sergeant Edward Hill, captured by the Germans at Dunkerque, France in 1940, smiling as he was librated in late Mar 1945

Destroyed buildings of Lipa City, Luzon, Philippine Islands, after 29 Mar 1945	Painted bow of the tanker Torrance Hills ready for launch at the Marinship yard, Sausalito, California, United States, 29 Mar 1945. The painting commemorates the third anniversary of Marinship.

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