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American soldiers guarding the entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, late Apr or early May 1945	American soldiers inspecting a train car full of dead prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, circa May 1945

American troops at the main gatehouse of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, circa Apr 1945.	Americans disarming a capturing MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft, 1945

Americans walking through the ruins of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945	An officer aboard the submarine USS Bullhead looking through the aft periscope, about May 1945, location unknown.

Aviation Ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Bennington, May 1945. Note the torpedo’s plywood drag ring on the nose and wooden tail shroud.	B-24H of the 732nd Bomb Squadron was force to land at a Luftwaffe airfield in France Feb 4 1944. It was repaired and flown by the Germans as A3+KB. It was then recaptured at Salzburg, Austria in May 1945 where it was examined here by SSgt JT Sipkovsky

B-25 Mitchell of the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron (Bombardment) at Lingayen Field, Luzon, Philippines, Apr-May 1945	B-32 Dominator bomber 'Hobo Queen II' shortly after her arrival at Clark Field, Manila, Philippine Islands, May 1945

Barges on the Canal du Centre, La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945	Barracks, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, Apr-May 1945

Bombardier 2Lt Everett Hanes in the nose of a B-26 Marauder of the 344th Bomb Group flying from Florennes, Belgium, 1945. Note the Norden bombsight.	Boxes of gold caps and dentures removed from prisoners in Buchenwald Concentration Camps, near Weimar, Germany, Apr-May 1945

C-54 Skymaster transports lined up at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico as part of Operation Green, the airlift of personnel from Europe to the Pacific, 1945.	Captain Edward Steichen, head of the United States Navy’s photographic unit, interacting with children on Guam, Mariana Islands, May 1945.

Captured German officers and men marching under loose American supervision, Austria, 1945	Captured Hitler Youth children in Berlin, Germany, circa 1945

Chateau near La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945, photo 1 of 3	Chateau near La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945, photo 2 of 3