American GIs learn about the death of Hitler from the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes.

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Two color guards and color bearers of the Japanese-American 442nd Combat Team, stand to attention in the Bruyeres area, France, on November 12 1944. The regiment was a fighting unit composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry. In total around 14,000 Japanese-Americans fought in World War II

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On both sides of the street convoys of the 28th Infantry Division are flanked by Frenchmen in the northern city of Colmar after liberation on February 3 1945. Nazi occupation of France formally lasted from May 1940 to December 1944.