B-17G Fortress of the 401st Bomb Group based at Deenethorpe, England on the ramp at Poltava, Ukraine alongside a B-24 Liberator and a C-47 Skytrain, 11 Apr 1945. Poltava was used by US bombers during Operation Frantic.British officers leading two blindfolded German officers through the British lines at Winsen, Germany for a truce negotiation in connection with the typhus-infected camp at Bergen-Belsen, Apr 1945.Contralto singer Marian Anderson entertaining a group of African-American US Army personnel, San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 11 Apr 1945Dead prisoners of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp on barracks floors as discovered by members of US 1st Army, Nordhausen, Germany, 11 Apr 1945
B-17G Fortress of the 401st Bomb Group based at Deenethorpe, England on the ramp at Poltava, Ukraine alongside a B-24 Liberator and a C-47 Skytrain, 11 Apr 1945. Poltava was used by US bombers during Operation Frantic.British officers leading two blindfolded German officers through the British lines at Winsen, Germany for a truce negotiation in connection with the typhus-infected camp at Bergen-Belsen, Apr 1945.Contralto singer Marian Anderson entertaining a group of African-American US Army personnel, San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 11 Apr 1945Dead prisoners of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp on barracks floors as discovered by members of US 1st Army, Nordhausen, Germany, 11 Apr 1945
Japanese special attack Zero fighter crashing into USS Missouri, off Okinawa, Japan, 11 April 1945Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 11 Apr 1945Medics of US 3rd Army conferring at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near a wagon full of camp victims, Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945Miles Dempsey, Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, and William Simpson, 11 Apr 1945
Japanese special attack Zero fighter crashing into USS Missouri, off Okinawa, Japan, 11 April 1945Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 11 Apr 1945Medics of US 3rd Army conferring at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near a wagon full of camp victims, Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945Miles Dempsey, Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, and William Simpson, 11 Apr 1945
Sikorsky R-4B Helicopter delivering spare aircraft parts to the B-29 base at North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 11 Apr 1945.Soldiers of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada aboard a Kangaroo armored personnel carrier converted from a Ram tank, Europe, 11 Apr 1945US Army Nurse Corps Captain Della H. Raney, the first African-American nurse of the US Army in WW2, Camp Beale, California, United States, 11 Apr 1945Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, and Tito, Moscow, Russia, 11 Apr 1945
Sikorsky R-4B Helicopter delivering spare aircraft parts to the B-29 base at North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 11 Apr 1945.Soldiers of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada aboard a Kangaroo armored personnel carrier converted from a Ram tank, Europe, 11 Apr 1945US Army Nurse Corps Captain Della H. Raney, the first African-American nurse of the US Army in WW2, Camp Beale, California, United States, 11 Apr 1945Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, and Tito, Moscow, Russia, 11 Apr 1945
Wagon full of Buchenwald Concentration Camp victims, Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945
Wagon full of Buchenwald Concentration Camp victims, Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945


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