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Fires burning aboard HMS Formidable after being stuck by Japanese special attack aircraft, Pacific Ocean, 4 May 1945	Generalleutnant Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin surrendering to General Mark Clark at US 15th Army Group Headquarters, Italy, 4 May 1945

HMS Formidable burning after being struck by a Japanese special attack aircraft in the Pacific Ocean off Sakishima Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945	HMS Formidable crewmen starting to remove the wreckage of Japanese special attack aircraft from the flight deck, Pacific Ocean, 4 May 1945

Montgomery reading surrender document to German officers at British 21st Army Group headquarters, Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 4 May 1945. This was only the large surrender in Germany of German forces facing British forces.	Sherman Firefly tank of British 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945

The crew of a Humber Light Reconnaissance Car Mk III feeding pigeons in Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945	Twelve of the top snipers from the Soviet Third Army, 1st Belarussian Front, May 1945. Note the modified Mosin-Nagant rifles and PU 3.5x series fixed power scopes.

Two soldiers of US 7th Army about to cross from Austria into Italy at the Brenner Pass, 4 May 1945	USS Gunnel off Hunters Point, San Francisco, California, United States, 4 May 1945

Wreckage of the Japanese special attack aircraft that crashed into HMS Formidable in the Pacific Ocean off Sakishima Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945	Dutch children stealing wood from tram tracks for use as fuel in kitchen stoves, 5 May 1945

Private D. E. Hailey and T. M. Conway of the Australian 2/23 Infantry Battalion in their Bren gun pit on the forward slope of B Company position, Tarakan, Borneo, May 1945	Quarry, near Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 5 May 1945

Rings left by Buchenwald concentration camp victims, 5 May 1945	F4U-1D Corsair on the flight deck of USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa, 6 May 1945

Former prisoners of Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp welcoming the troops of 11th Armored Division of US Third Army, Austria, 6 May 1945	German soldiers surrendering their rifles, near Landeck, Austria, 6 May 1945

Lidice, Czechoslovakia 6 May 1945. Released British prisoners visiting the site of the mass grave holding the bodies of all 173 of Lidice’s men murdered by the SS on 10 Jun 1942.	Soviet troops escorting German officers to surrender negotiations, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), 6 May 1945