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Precious metals, paintings, and other loot hidden by Germans in a salt mine near Merkers, Germany, 15 Apr 1945	Private H. E. Goddard of Perth Regiment of the Canadian 5th Armored Division near Arnhem, Netherlands, 15 Apr 1945

Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen, Germany bury the corpses of prisoners found at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in mass graves, mid-Apr 1945	The British Army entering the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 15 Apr 1945 as German and Hungarian guards man the gate. On the right is a loudspeaker truck to inform inmates the camp was under British authority.

The Ship’s Chaplain leads a memorial service for President Franklin D Roosevelt on the flight deck of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, c. Apr 15 1945.	US Army Corporal Donald Ornitz examining a looted painting in the Merkers salt mine, Germany, Apr 1945

Aerial reconnaissance photo of Lamsepo Airfield, Linkou, Taiwan, 16 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 2	Aerial reconnaissance photo of Lamsepo Airfield, Linkou, Taiwan, 16 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2

Audie Murphy's Croix de Guerre citation, 16 Apr 1945	Crowded medical quarantine area, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany, 16 Apr 1945

Dutch civilians welcoming Canadian troops of the the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, 16 Apr 1945	Elie Wiesel (second row, seventh from left) and other prisoners of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany, 16 Apr 1945

Intrepid burning after special attack, off Okinawa, Japan, 16 Apr 1945; a Fletcher-class destroyer in foreground	Lieutenant F. B. Underman (cutting cake) and Commander E. W. Davis celebrating the 5,000th landing aboard USS Anzio, 16 Apr 1945

Map depicting the landings at Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan by men of US Army 77th Division, 16 Apr 1945	Massacred political prisoners in a barn, Gardelegen, Germany, 16 Apr 1945

One of the 150 concentration camp prisoners burned to death by the SS as Allied troops closed in on the camp, Gardelegen, Germany, 16 Apr 1945	Soviet ZiS-3 guns bombarding German positions near Seelow Heights east of Berlin, Germany, 16-19 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 2

Soviet ZiS-3 guns bombarding German positions near Seelow Heights, Berlin, Germany, 16-19 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2	TBM Avenger torpedo planes of Composite Squadron 84 from USS Makin Island flying over Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 16 Apr 1945