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An A6M Zero special attack aircraft crashed through the flight deck of USS Enterprise and lodged in the forward elevator pit. 250kg bomb exploded and propelled the elevator several hundred feet in the air, 14 May 1945	As seen from the USS Essex, the USS Enterprise burns furiously after a Japanese Special Attack aircraft struck the carrier at the forward elevator off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945	As seen from the USS Hornet (Essex-class) anti-aircraft shells burst above the USS Bennington southeast of Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945. Note Hornet’s F6F Hellcats in the foreground.	Crews aboard USS Enterprise controlling fires from a Japanese bomb that blew the forward elevator completely out of the ship, off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945.

Crews aboard USS Enterprise controlling fires from a Japanese bomb that blew the forward elevator completely out of the ship, shearing off the tail of an F6F Hellcat as it exited, off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945.	Nagoya, Japan during attack, seen from an American aircraft, 14 May 1945	Russian former prisoner liberated by US 3rd Armored Division pointing out former Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners, possibly at Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, 14 May 1945	Two sailors from USS Enterprise stand on a section of the forward elevator awaiting rescue from USS Waldron after being blown into the water by the same explosion that sent the elevator high into the air, 14 May 1945.

B-29 Superfortress bomber 'City of Pittsfield/Two Passes and a Crap' of 39th BG of US 61st BS about to sink after being ditched north of Guam, Mariana Islands, 15 May 1945; she was damaged by flak over Nagoya, Japan	Captain Daniel Gallery presenting a German battle flag and flagstaff captured from submarine U-505 to Admiral Jonas Ingram. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal is behind Admiral Ingram. 16 May 1945, Washington, DC.	A German woman covering her nose and mouth as she walked by the 800 exhumed bodies of forced laborers murdered by SS men, near Nammering, Germany, 17 May 1945	Staff Sergeant B. Kreselewski of 337th Field Artillery Battalion, US 88th Division numbering a keg of gold, Fortezza, Italy, 17 May 1945

US Navy African-American Seaman 1st Class E. Perry splacing steel cable, 17 May 1945	Japanese-American troops of 100th Infantry Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team inspecting a confiscated German field kitchen, Brescia, Italy, 18 May 1945, photo 1 of 2	Japanese-American troops of 100th Infantry Battalion, US 442nd Regimental Combat Team inspecting a confiscated German field kitchen, Brescia, Italy, 18 May 1945, photo 2 of 2	German cruiser Admiral Hipper in dry dock at Kiel, Germany after being captured by the Allies, 19 May 1945. Note German attempts at camouflage and damage from Allied bombing.

Essex underway at sea during the Okinawa Campaign, 20 May 1945; note the F4U and F6F aircraft on the flight deck	US Marines surveying a suspected Japanese position, Shuri, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945	Two days after all internees were evacuated from Bergen-Belsen, the last hut was set alight by a British flame thrower and burned to the ground due to the thick presence of typhus and lice, 21 May 1945.	USS Lexington (Essex-class) at anchor in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 21 May 1945 following extensive repairs at the Navy Yard in Bremerton.