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USS Yorktown (Essex-class) steaming in Task Group 58.4 en route to launch area off Kyushu, Japan, 19 Mar 1945. Photo likely taken from Intrepid with Langley behind Yorktown. Photo 2 of 2	Yamato under air attack in the Inland Sea, 19 Mar 1945

Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith and Colonel Dudley S. Brown surveying wreckages at the Iwo Jima invasion beaches, circa Mar 1945	M3 Lee tank passing a burning building in a Burmese village south of Mandalay, Burma, 20 Mar 1945.

Men of US 535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion checking their positions in Remagen, Germany, Mar 1945	40mm Bofors gunnery drills aboard USS Makin Island, 21 Mar 1945, prior to the Okinawa Campaign

British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (right) awarding Major General James Gavin (left) of US 82nd Airborne Division the Distinguished Service Order award, Mönchengladbach, Germany, 21 Mar 1945	Buffalo tracked landing vehicles of UK 4th Royal Tank Regiment being transported forward in preparation for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 21 Mar 1945

Louis Mountbatten addressing men of British Royal Armoured Corps atop a captured Japanese 75mm gun, Mandalay, Burma, 21 Mar 1945	Map depicting the Allied advance to the Rhine River in West-Central Germany, Eastern France, and the Low Countries, 8 Feb-21 Mar 1945

Ordnancemen aboard USS Hancock adjusting fins on 5-inch HVAR rocket motors, 21 Mar 1945.	Ordnancemen aboard USS Hancock loading 5-inch HVAR rockets onto the wings of F4U Corsairs before taking off for a strike on Kyushu, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Photo 1 of 2.

Ordnancemen aboard USS Hancock loading 5-inch HVAR rockets onto the wings of F4U Corsairs before taking off for a strike on Kyushu, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Tailhook of an F4U Corsair from Fighting Squadron VBF-6 hooking an arresting cable aboard USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Note aircraft tractor tug in the foreground.

2-inch mortar team of 2nd London Irish Rifles firing mortar rounds at German positions on Senio River, Italy, 22 Mar 1945	Bernard Montgomery, Arthur Coningham, and Miles Dempsey in conversation, Walbeck, Germany, 22 Mar 1945

1st Squad of A Company of US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion crossing the Rhine River in Germany by an US Navy landing craft, 23 Mar 1945	A truck crossing the Rhine River in Germany, 23 Mar 1945; this was the second bridge built by US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion

British Diamond T Model 980 tractor towing a trailer loaded with a Churchill tank during preparations for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 23 Mar 1945	Marines and Army ground crews look over the first Sikorsky R-4 helicopter to land in the fighter strip on Iwo Jima, Mar 23, 1945.