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| 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 | Keishu sugar plant under US aerial attack, Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan, 17 May 1945, photo 1 of 2 | Keishu sugar plant under US aerial attack, Shoka (now Changhua), Taiwan, 17 May 1945, photo 2 of 2 | Men of US Marine Corps 6th Division entering Naha, Okinawa, 17 May 1945 |
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| 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 | US Navy tug boat YTM 466 at the Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia, United States, 17 May 1945; the boat's crewmen were all African-American | USAAF study of damage to Nagoya, Japan done by aerial bombing on 14 and 17 May 1945 |
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