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SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker (mostly hidden behind aide) speaking with US General Henning Linden, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945; also present were journalist Paul Levy (with helmet, looking down), Dr. Victor Maurer (facing away)	US Army troops executing German SS guards at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29 Apr 1945

USS San Diego assisting USS Haggard after the latter was hit by Japanese special attack, off Okinawa, Japan, 29 Apr 1945	A Marine of the US 1st Marines Division pointed his Thompson submachine gun at a Japanese sniper, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Jun 1945

An American soldier standing beside the bodies of SS personnel shot by US troops during the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 29-30 Apr 1945	British personnel dismantling the experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch near Stuttgart, Germany, Apr 1945

Engineers of the Australian 2/13 field company resting aboard a landing craft after a failed attempt to reach coastal wire defenses off Lingkas, Tarakan, Borneo, 30 Apr 1945	T-34-85 tank and SU-100 tank destroyer of Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army outside of Berlin, Germany, 30 Apr 1945

United States Army map of Borneo showing Japanese troop dispositions as of 30 Apr 1945.	'Hostel 9', Kunming, China, mid-1945; photo taken by a member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional)

'Hostel 9', Kunming, China, mid-1945; photo taken by a member of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional)	10.5 cm leFH18 (Sf) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper self-propelled gun, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945

2nd Lieutenant Donald Rusling, Captain Donald Garrett, 2nd Lieutenant Lester Bartils, and 2nd Lieutenant Glenn Hunter at a bomb shelter, Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	A British Lancaster bomber dropping food parcels for the starving residents of Ypenburg, Netherlands as part of Operation Manna, May 1945.

A message from the starving people of Holland to the US Air Force for food drops during Operation Chowhound, early May 1945. The RAF ran Operation Manna that dropped even more food to the starving Dutch. Page 1 of 2.	A message from the starving people of Holland to the US Air Force for food drops during Operation Chowhound, early May 1945. The RAF ran Operation Manna that dropped even more food to the starving Dutch. Page 2 of 2.

A recently-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivor, Weimar, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945	A salvo from USS North Carolina hitting a land target at Okinawa, Japan, 1945

A soldier of US 1st Army posing with a wrecked Jagdtiger tank destroyer, Offensen, Germany, Apr-May 1945	Aerial photo of the town of Ie on Ie Jima, Japan, circa 1945