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Female Japanese civilians training with a Type 11 machine gun, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Jun 1945	Former prisoners of the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp shortly after liberation, Austria, Jun 1945

Four German heavy armored fighting vehicles at the Henschel tank testing ground at Haustenbeck near Paderborn, Germany, Jun 1945	German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945

German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945	German heavy armored fighting vehicles at the Henschel tank testing ground at Haustenbeck near Paderborn, Germany, Jun 1945

German pillbox being demolished using 400 pounds of TNT, ignited with an anti-tank mine, Germany, 1945	Grave, western Germany, Jun 1945

Group portrait of officers of Chinese Army 4th War Area and 74th Corps, taken at Changsha, Hunan, China, mid-1945; Zhang Lingfu front second from left, Zhou Zhidao front third from left, Zhao Ruhan rear second from right)	Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat “10,000th Hellcat” BuNo 78854 of Fighting-Bombing Squadron VBF-87 catching an arresting wire while landing aboard USS Ticonderoga, May-Jun 1945 in the western Pacific.

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat “10,000th Hellcat” BuNo 78854 of Fighting-Bombing Squadron VBF-87 preparing for launch from USS Ticonderoga, May-Jun 1945 in the western Pacific.	Hamburg, Germany in ruins, 1945; note Heiligengeistbrücke bridge at top

Hannover, Germany in ruins, 1945	Hannover, Germany in ruins, 1945; note rail station building

HMS Formidable going through the anti-submarine boom in Sydney harbor, Australia, mid-1945; photo taken from George's Head looking toward Green Point	Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus cathedral, Köln (Cologne), Germany, Jun 1945

Hungarian prisoners of war being guarded by a US soldier, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, circa May-Jun 1945	Interesting aerial view into the cockpit of an SB2C-4E or SBF-4E Helldiver with a Utility Squadron, probably in the western Pacific, 1945. Note the slotted wing flaps that served as dive-brakes.

Internment camp for Japanese-Canadians, British Columbia, Canada, Jun 1945	Japanese resistance fighters captured, Okinawa, Japan, Jun 1945; prisoner to the far left reading American propaganda literature