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Aerial view of Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945	African-American soldiers of 370th Regiment of US Army 92nd Infantry Division marching through Prato in the Po Valley, Italy, circa May 1945

African-American US Coast Guard Seaman 1st Class Levern Robinson doing laundry aboard a troop transport in the Atlantic, circa mid-1945	American flamethrower tank attacking a Japanese-held cave, Okinawa, Japan, circa Apr-Jun 1945

American leaders at Okinawa, Japan: Spruance, Nimitz, and Buckner, circa May 1945	American soldiers guarding the entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, late Apr or early May 1945

American soldiers inspecting a train car full of dead prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, circa May 1945	American troops at the main gatehouse of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, circa Apr 1945.

Americans disarming a capturing MXY7 Ohka Model 11 aircraft, 1945	Americans walking through the ruins of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945

An officer aboard the submarine USS Bullhead looking through the aft periscope, about May 1945, location unknown.	Aviation Ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Bennington, May 1945. Note the torpedo’s plywood drag ring on the nose and wooden tail shroud.

B-24H of the 732nd Bomb Squadron was force to land at a Luftwaffe airfield in France Feb 4 1944. It was repaired and flown by the Germans as A3+KB. It was then recaptured at Salzburg, Austria in May 1945 where it was examined here by SSgt JT Sipkovsky	B-25 Mitchell of the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron (Bombardment) at Lingayen Field, Luzon, Philippines, Apr-May 1945

B-32 Dominator bomber 'Hobo Queen II' shortly after her arrival at Clark Field, Manila, Philippine Islands, May 1945	Barges on the Canal du Centre, La Louvière, Belgium, May 1945

Barracks, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, Apr-May 1945	Bombardier 2Lt Everett Hanes in the nose of a B-26 Marauder of the 344th Bomb Group flying from Florennes, Belgium, 1945. Note the Norden bombsight.

Boxes of gold caps and dentures removed from prisoners in Buchenwald Concentration Camps, near Weimar, Germany, Apr-May 1945	C-54 Skymaster transports lined up at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico as part of Operation Green, the airlift of personnel from Europe to the Pacific, 1945.