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Map noting the progress of the Battle of Tarakan	Post-liberation identification paper of former Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp prisoner Jacek Jablonski, issued by the US Army on 25 May 1945

The first US soldiers to return home from France under the Army's new point system, Le Havre, France, 25 May 1945	Aerial view looking southward over Iwo Jima's South Airfield (formerly Japanese Airfield # 1), with Mount Suribachi in the distance, 26 May 1945; note B-29 bombers on the field

Aerial view of Tokyo following bombing by B-29 Superfortress bombers, night of 26 May 1945	African-American Private 1st Class Ruth L. James of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, Women's Army Corps, US Army, Rouen, France, 26 May 1945

Corporal Yukio Araki (with puppy) with fellow pilots of Japanese Army 72nd Shinbu Squadron, Bansei Airfield, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, 26 May 1945	Men of 1st Battalion of US 4th Marine Regiment setting up camp on 'Sugar Loaf' on Okinawa, Japan, 26 May 1945

Men of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army Forces conducting mop-up operations on Tarakan, Borneo, late May 1945	Admirals William Halsey and Raymond Spruance aboard USS New Mexico, 27 May 1945

African-American members of the US Army 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion parading in honor of Joan d'Arc at the marketplace where she was burned at the stake, Rouen, France, 27 May 1945	Japanese policemen identifying victims of American bombing, near Aoyama Police Station, Tokyo, Japan, 27 May 1945

Sherman tanks of US 6th Marine Division at Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 27 May 1945	US soldiers on a path high on the Tyrol Schistose Alps near Innsbruck, Austria, 27 May 1945

Commandant of the First Naval District Rear Admiral Felix Gygax and Commander, Naval Air Bases, First Naval District Commodore Dixie Kiefer arriving at Otis Field, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States 28 May 1945.	US Marine Staff Sergeant A S. Barnacle shaving in his camp on Okinawa, Japan, ignoring the heavy flooding due to rain, 28 May 1945

A sign erected by the British at the site of the former Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (the camp had been burned to the ground to control the spread of typhus), 29 May 1945.	B-29 bombers of US 500th Bomb Group dropping incendiary bombs over Yokohama, Japan, 29 May 1945

Men of US 6th Marine Division resting in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 29 May 1945	Tautog underway, 29 May 1945