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USS Intrepid smoking and listing after being struck by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, 16 Apr 1945. Note the volume of water from the fire fighting efforts pouring out of the hangar deck.	USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 1 of 4.

USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 2 of 4.	USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 3 of 4.

USS Ticonderoga steams down Puget Sound, Washington, United States on her trials after substantial repairs from battle damage, Apr 16, 1945. Photo 4 of 4.	A pile of rotting corpses at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 17 Apr 1945. Note some camp buildings in the background.

African-American US Marine 4th Ammunition Company Private First Class Luther Woodward admiring his Bronze Star medal, 17 Apr 1945; his award was later upgraded to the Silver Star	Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp as seen from outside the wire, 17 Apr 1945.

Cabbage booby-trapped by Japanese troops using a Type 97 grenade, Okinawa, Japan, Apr 1945	CG-4 troop gliders awaiting snatch by low passing C-47 Skytrain aircraft, Wesel, Germany, Apr 17, 1945

Colditz Castle, Sachsen, Germany, late-Apr 1945	Emaciated Hungarian woman prisoner at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 17 Apr 1945.

Emaciated prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp huddled into a room, 17 Apr 1945.	Female SS guards at Bergen-Belsen being put to work by the liberating British force, 17 Apr 1945.

German soldiers made to load victims of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp onto a truck, Germany, 17 Apr 1945; note British troops in background with Sten submachine gun and Lee-Enfield rifles	Rows of dead prisoners at Mittelbau-Dora Concentraiton Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, 17 Apr 1945

SS Hauptsturmfuhrer (captain) Josef Kramer, former Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, while under arrest by British forces, 17 Apr 1945. After trial, he was hanged 13 Dec 1945.	Two women prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 17 Apr 1945.

Women and children, former inmates of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, huddled together in a large room after liberation, Germany, 17-18 Apr 1945	Women prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp preparing food in the open air with scores of rotting corpses all around them, 17 Apr 1945 (food provided by the British). Photo 1 of 3.