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A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima Apr 24, 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs.	A B-29 Superfortress crashed during an attempted emergency landing on Iwo Jima Apr 24, 1945 and ran into nine P-51 Mustangs. Ground personnel wait behind a Jeep for all ammunition to cook off.	German civilians exhuming remains of 140 prisoners originally from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp about 50 kilometers to the northeast, near Schwarzenfeld, Germany, 24 Apr 1945	Nansei sugar plant under US air attack, Kagi (now Chiayi), Taiwan, 24 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 3

Nansei sugar plant under US air attack, Kagi (now Chiayi), Taiwan, 24 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 3	Nansei sugar plant under US air attack, Kagi (now Chiayi), Taiwan, 24 Apr 1945, photo 3 of 3	US 3rd Army soldier guarding loot found stored in the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) at the Ellingen Castle in southern Germany, 24 Apr 1945	US Senator Alben Barkley visiting Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany, 24 Apr 1945

Adolf Hitler decorating Hitler Youth members, Berlin, Germany, 25 Apr 1945	American 2nd Lt. William Robertson and Russian Lt. Alexander Sylvashko met near Torgau, Germany, 25 Apr 1945	American soldier guarding a corner of a German prisoners of war camp near Remagen, Germany, 25 Apr 1945	Australia's delegation to the United Nations Conference, San Francisco, California, United States, 25 Apr 1945; note Frank Forde and H. V. Evatt seated in center

PV-1 Ventura aircraft of US Navy patrol bomber squadron VPB-125 taking off from Natal, Brazil, 25 Apr 1945; note PB4Y-1 Liberator bombers in background	Russian soldiers with PPSh-41 submachine guns entering the Frankfurter Allee station in Berlin, Germany, late-Apr 1945	Ulm Münster standing amongst devastation, Ulm, Germany, 25 Apr 1945	US 69th Infantry Division Captain Hans Trefousse posing with a SdKfz 165 self-propelled gun that he had captured by persuading the German crew to surrender on 25 Apr 1945, near Wurzen, Sachsen, Germany

US Army African-American crew of the 761st Tank Battalion on a M5A1 Stuart light tank in Coburg, Bayreuth, Germany, 25 Apr 1945. Note white flags hanging from upper palace windows. Also note evidence that those windows have been machine gunned.	US Army soldiers examining artist Edouard Manet's 'In the Conservatory' which had been hidden away by Germans in the Merkers salt mine, Germany, 25 Apr 1945	British Army convoy of Canadian Chevrolet CMP 3-ton trucks crossing a temporary bridge in Burma on their way to Rangoon (now Yangon), 26 Apr 1945.	Franklin approaching New York City, New York, United States, 26 Apr 1945; note damage on her flight deck