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Men of the US 77th Division landing from LVTs onto Zanami Island of the Kerama Islands near Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945	Soldiers of the US 7th Army pause at the Siegfried Line on the road to Karlsruhe, Germany, 27 Mar 1945

USS Hornet in camouflage Measure 33 Design 3a off Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945; note various aircraft on the flight deck	USS Langley underway in the Pacific Ocean, 27 Mar 1945

A TBM Avenger trailing smoke returning to the carrier USS Essex after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 Mar 1945.	Map depicting the crossing of the Rhine, 22-28 Mar 1945

Men of the British 5th Dorsetshire Regiment crossing the Rhine River into Germany in a Buffalo tracked landing vehicle, 28 Mar 1945	Men of the UK 1st Commando Brigade manning two Vickers medium machine guns just east of the Rhine River outside of Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between 24-31 Mar 1945

War Correspondent Ted Stanford of The Pittsburgh Courier interviewing African-American US Army Sergeant Morris O. Harris of the 784th Tank Battalion of the 9th Army, 28 Mar 1945	Battleship Colorado bombarding Okinawa, Japan, 29 Mar 1945; cropped photo

British Sergeant Edward Hill, captured by the Germans at Dunkerque, France in 1940, smiling as he was librated in late Mar 1945	Destroyed buildings of Lipa City, Luzon, Philippine Islands, after 29 Mar 1945

Painted bow of the tanker Torrance Hills ready for launch at the Marinship yard, Sausalito, California, United States, 29 Mar 1945. The painting commemorates the third anniversary of Marinship.	Private L. H. Johnson and Sergeant D. R. Fairborn of 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion with a PIAT launcher, Lembeck, Germany, 29 Mar 1945

Soldiers of 44th Division, US 7th Army fighting in Mannheim, Germany, 29 Mar 1945; note bazooka and M1 Garand rifles	Soviet M-17 vehicles in the streets of Danzig, late-Mar 1945

Two young German soldiers, one injured, the other dead, east of the Rhine River, Germany, late Mar 1945	DShK M1938 heavy machine being used as a tank-mounted weapon by a Soviet soldier in Danzig, late Mar 1945

High Commissioner Lord Gort and newspaper publisher Gershon Agron in conversation, 30 Mar 1945	Japanese 120mm gun protuding from a cave opening, Iwo Jima, Japan, circa Mar 1945