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Ships in Kerama Retto anchorage near Okinawa, Japan spreading an anti-kamikaze smoke screen, 3 May 1945, as viewed from USS Sargent Bay. Note TBM Avenger and FM-2 Wildcat aircraft in foreground.	Technical Sergeant James Flaha of US 97th Infantry Division band at a funeral for former Flossenbürg Concentration Camp prisoners who had died after liberation shortly after liberation, Germany, 3 May 1945

Universal carriers of British 1/5th Queen's Regiment, 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945	US Army M24 Chaffee light tank fighting in Salzburg, Austria, early May 1945

Walter Dornberger, Herbert Axter, Wernher von Braun, Hans Lindenberg, and Bernhard Tessmann (partially cropped), Austria, 3 May 1945	Allies examining a captured Mistel flying bomb, a Focke-Wulf Fw-190 piggybacked onto a Junkers Ju-88 bomber. The bomber would be filled with explosives and controlled by the fighter pilot, France, 4 May 1945.

An aircraft factory located near Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, operated with forced laborers from the camp during the war, Germany, 4 May 1945	An M4 Sherman tank and men of the 3rd Infantry Division entering Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 4, 1945

British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is the last to sign the documents of surrender as German General Eberhard Kinzel looks on at Montgomery’s headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 4 May 1945.	British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery looks on as German General Eberhard Kinzel signs the documents of surrender at Montgomery’s headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 4 May 1945.

Cromwell tank crew of C Squadron, 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945; the man sitting on the tank was a Russian former POW who had been fighting alongside the crew	D4Y3 Suisei special attack aircraft diving at USS Sangamon as part of Operation Kikusui No. 5, off Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945

Firefighting aboard HMS Formidable after she was struck by a Japanese special attack aircraft in the Pacific Ocean off Sakishima Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945, photo 1 of 2	Firefighting aboard HMS Formidable after she was struck by a Japanese special attack aircraft in the Pacific Ocean off Sakishima Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945, photo 2 of 2

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