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USS New Mexico hit by a special attack aircraft at dusk off Okinawa, Japan, 12 May 1945; photo taken from cruiser USS Wichita	US soldier sightseeing in the Tyrol Schistose Alps, Lans, Austria, 13 May 1945

Aerial view of bridges over Daitokei River (now Dadu River) in Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan, 14 May 1945	An A6M Zero special attack aircraft crashed through the flight deck of USS Enterprise and lodged in the forward elevator pit. 250kg bomb exploded and propelled the elevator several hundred feet in the air, 14 May 1945

As seen from the USS Essex, the USS Enterprise burns furiously after a Japanese Special Attack aircraft struck the carrier at the forward elevator off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945	Crews aboard USS Enterprise controlling fires from a Japanese bomb that blew the forward elevator completely out of the ship, off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945.

Crews aboard USS Enterprise controlling fires from a Japanese bomb that blew the forward elevator completely out of the ship, shearing off the tail of an F6F Hellcat as it exited, off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945.	Kibi Sugar Refinery in Kizan, Takao Prefecture (now Qishan District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan under attack by B-25J bombers of USAAF 38th Bombardment Group, 14 May 1945

Ujitsu sugar plant under attack by US Navy PV-1 aircraft, Ujitsu (now Wuri), Taiwan, 14 May 1945	Keishu sugar plant under US aerial attack, Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan, 17 May 1945, photo 1 of 2

Keishu sugar plant under US aerial attack, Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan, 17 May 1945, photo 2 of 2	Staff Sergeant B. Kreselewski of 337th Field Artillery Battalion, US 88th Division numbering a keg of gold, Fortezza, Italy, 17 May 1945

US Navy African-American Seaman 1st Class E. Perry splacing steel cable, 17 May 1945	US Navy tug boat YTM 466 at the Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia, United States, 17 May 1945; the boat's crewmen were all African-American

Meiji Corporation sugar refinery and butanol plant in Taito, Taiwan under attack by four PV-1 Ventura aircraft of US Navy VPB-137 squadron, 18 May 1945	Deggendorf harbour, Bavaria, Germany in ruins after bombing by US 426th Bomb Group on 20 Apr 1945, circa late May 1945

Italian prisoners of war and liberated forced laborers being transported from Austria toward the Italian border, late 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

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	US soldiers on a path high on the Tyrol Schistose Alps near Innsbruck, Austria, 27 May 1945