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Film star Marilyn Maxwell with a US Marine patient at the Naval Hospital of Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, May 1945	Film star Marilyn Maxwell with wounded (on Iwo Jima, Japan) US Navy Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Charles M. Gibbs, Jr. at the Naval Hospital of Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, May 1945

Five welders at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, 1945.	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and staff officers in a Jeep at Nimitz’ new forward headquarters on Guam, Mariana Islands, Apr-May 1945.

FM-2 Wildcat fighter after a barrier crash aboard USS Sable, Great Lakes, United States, May 1945	Fw 190 A-8 at rest at an airfield after being captured by American forces, May 1945

Gate of the Auschwitz I, Oswiecim, Poland, mid-1945	George Patton having just scolded a tank crew for timidly sandbagging a tank, Germany, May 1945

German prisoners captured by 1st Belorussian front, Berlin, Germany, 1945	Ground crew checking the radio of a P-40 Warhawk fighter at a US 14th Air Force Base in China, May 1945; note Chinese Air Force roundel

Groundcrew of No. 514 Squadron of Lancaster bombers at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England loading food parcels into an airplane’s bomb bay for dropping on the Netherlands during Operation Manna, May 1945.	Il-2 Shturmovik aircraft in flight over Berlin, Germany, Apr-May 1945

Ki-100 fighter of Japanese Army 5th Sentai at rest, Japan, mid-1945	Ki-100 I-Otsu fighter of Japanese Army 111th Sentai at rest, Japan, 1945

Ki-115 Tsurugi aircraft at rest, circa 1940s	Launching of a United States Army invasion barge at Marinship, Sausalito, California, 1945.

Lidice, Czechoslovakia May 1945. People gathering at the site of the mass grave holding the bodies of all 173 of Lidice’s men murdered by the SS on 10 Jun 1942.	M26 Pershing tank of US 8th Armored Division on parade in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1945

Main gate of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1945	Man of US 1st Marine Division comforting a fellow Marine who had just witnessed the death of a friend, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945