"Liberty party. Liberty section personnel aboard LCM returning to USS CASABLANCA from Rara Island, off Pitylieu Island, Manus." Photograph by R. W. Mowday, Admiralty Islands, April 19, 1945. The day before this image was taken, German forces in the Ruhr had surrendered. Two days later, Soviet forces would reach Berlin. On April 30, German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would commit suicide in his Berlin bunker. Click here to enlarge.