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Harry Truman being sworn in as the President of the United States, White House, Washington DC, United States, 12 Apr 1945	High school girls waving cherry blossom branches to bid farewell to Lieutenant Toshio Anazawa of Japanese Army 20th Shinbu Squadron in Ki-43 Hayabusa, Chiran Airfield, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, 12 Apr 1945; Anazawa died in action west of Okinawa, Japan later on the same day at the age of 23

Patton and Bradley at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945	Patton arriving at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945

Patton preparing to depart from the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945	Soviet Major General S.K. Kovalev and US Major General John Deane with an interpreter at Poltava Air Base, Ukraine, 12 Apr 1945. MGen Deane was stationed in Moscow as the US military attaché to the Soviet Union.

Survivors of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp demonstrating a method of torture they were subjected, Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945; Alois Liethe (mustached) was interpretor to Eisenhower	US Generals Eisenhower and Bradley examining a suitcase of German loot stored in the Merkers salt mine, Germany, 12 Apr 1945

US Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, and Eddy and Colonel Bernard Bernstein touring the Merkers salt mine in which treasures were stored, 12 Apr 1945	USS Tennessee burning shortly after being struck by a Japanese D3A special attack aircraft of Operation Kikusui No. 2, off Okinawa, Japan, 12 Apr 1945

Abandoned Go 145 and Ar 96 aircraft, Celle Airfield, Germany, 13 Apr 1945	American ships landing troops and supplies on a beach on Okinawa, Japan, 13 Apr 1945

B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of USAAF 398th Bombardment Group on bombing run to Neumünster, Germany, 13 Apr 1945	Pfc Mickey Rooney entertained fellow soldiers in the US 44th Division, Kist, Germany, 13 Apr 1945

Troops of the Canadian Royal Hamilton Light Infantry aboard Kangaroo armored personnel carriers converted from Ram tanks, near Groningen, the Netherlands, 13 Apr 1945	Aerial view of the Bergkristall complex of the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp, Austria, 14 Apr 1945

After being liberated by the US 1st Army, a Russian prisoner points out one of the particularly brutal guards at Buchenwald, Germany, 14 Apr 1945. Note guard’s black wound badge indicating he is combat wounded.	Bodies of victims piled in a trailer at Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, 14 Apr 1945

Bones and ashes of anti-Nazi German women in the crematoriums in the concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, 14 Apr 1945	Funeral procession of Roosevelt, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, United States, 14 Apr 1945