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British personnel dismantling the experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch near Stuttgart, Germany, Apr 1945	Engineers of the Australian 2/13 field company resting aboard a landing craft after a failed attempt to reach coastal wire defenses off Lingkas, Tarakan, Borneo, 30 Apr 1945

T-34-85 tank and SU-100 tank destroyer of Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army outside of Berlin, Germany, 30 Apr 1945	United States Army map of Borneo showing Japanese troop dispositions as of 30 Apr 1945.

'Hostel 9', Kunming, China, mid-1945; photo taken by a member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional)	'Hostel 9', Kunming, China, mid-1945; photo taken by a member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional)

10.5 cm leFH18 (Sf) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper self-propelled gun, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945	2nd Lieutenant Donald Rusling, Captain Donald Garrett, 2nd Lieutenant Lester Bartils, and 2nd Lieutenant Glenn Hunter at a bomb shelter, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

A British Lancaster bomber dropping food parcels for the starving residents of Ypenburg, Netherlands as part of Operation Manna, May 1945.	A message from the starving people of Holland to the US Air Force for food drops during Operation Chowhound, early May 1945. The RAF ran Operation Manna that dropped even more food to the starving Dutch. Page 1 of 2.

A message from the starving people of Holland to the US Air Force for food drops during Operation Chowhound, early May 1945. The RAF ran Operation Manna that dropped even more food to the starving Dutch. Page 2 of 2.	A recently-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivor, Weimar, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945

A salvo from USS North Carolina hitting a land target at Okinawa, Japan, 1945	A soldier of US 1st Army posing with a wrecked Jagdtiger tank destroyer, Offensen, Germany, Apr-May 1945

Aerial photo of the town of Ie on Ie Jima, Japan, circa 1945	Aerial view of Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945

African-American soldiers of 370th Regiment of US Army 92nd Infantry Division marching through Prato in the Po Valley, Italy, circa May 1945	African-American US Coast Guard Seaman 1st Class Levern Robinson doing laundry aboard a troop transport in the Atlantic, circa mid-1945

American flamethrower tank attacking a Japanese-held cave, Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945	American leaders at Okinawa, Japan: Spruance, Nimitz, and Buckner, circa May 1945