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USS Gunnel off Hunters Point, San Francisco, California, United States, 4 May 1945	Wreckage of the Japanese special attack aircraft that crashed into HMS Formidable in the Pacific Ocean off Sakishima Islands, Japan, 4 May 1945	Dutch children stealing wood from tram tracks for use as fuel in kitchen stoves, 5 May 1945	Private D. E. Hailey and T. M. Conway of the Australian 2/23 Infantry Battalion in their Bren gun pit on the forward slope of B Company position, Tarakan, Borneo, May 1945

Quarry, near Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, 5 May 1945	Rings left by Buchenwald concentration camp victims, 5 May 1945	F4U-1D Corsair on the flight deck of USS Bunker Hill off Okinawa, 6 May 1945	Former prisoners of Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp welcoming the troops of 11th Armored Division of US Third Army, Austria, 6 May 1945

German soldiers surrendering their rifles, near Landeck, Austria, 6 May 1945	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 6 May 1945. Released British prisoners visiting the site of the mass grave holding the bodies of all 173 of Lidice’s men murdered by the SS on 10 Jun 1942.	Soviet troops escorting German officers to surrender negotiations, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), 6 May 1945	A jubilant American airman hugging an English woman at Piccadilly Circus, London, England, United Kingdom, celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender, 7 May 1945

A patrol of 324th Infantry Regiment of US 44th Infantry Division meeting men of US 10th Mountain Division at the Reissa Pass on the Italo-Austrian border, 7 May 1945	After Germany’s surrender papers were signed at Reims, France 7 May 1945, Soviet General Ivan Susloparov and his aide met with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower.	British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery salutes Russian cavalry passing in review during a visit to the headquarters of Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky in Wismar, Germany, 7 May 1945.	British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stands to propose a toast during a dinner at the headquarters of Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky in Wismar, Germany, 7 May 1945.

British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, left, and Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky, right, during a visit to Rokossovsky’s headquarters in Wismar, Germany, 7 May 1945.	British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, right, and Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky, center, talk through their translators during a visit to Rokossovsky’s headquarters in Wismar, Germany, 7 May 1945.	Capsized Admiral Scheer, Kiel, Germany, 7 May 1945	Chief Air Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder and LtGen Carl Spaatz in the office of Marshall Georgy Zhukov before the German surrender was signed at Zhukov’s Headquarters at Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany, 7 May 1945