Three women walk along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of...
Civilians fill the streets of Milan to celebrate their liberation by Italian partizans from the Nazi German forces and Fascist regime of occupation...
Japanese man with a bicycle walks through the ruins of Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945.
Princess Elizabeth, future Elizabeth II, born 1926. Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Seen here in 1945 in the uniform...
The ruins of central Hiroshima, September 1945. On 6th August that year, the atomic bomb 'Little Boy', was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29...
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander of the French First Army salutes soldiers from the 1er Régiment de Cuirassiers, 5th Armoured Division...
Japanese toddler sits crying amidst the rubble left by the explosion in Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city...
Four Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the XXI Bomber Command, part of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command , on a bombing raid over...
First Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by B-29 Superfortresses, U.S. Army, A.A.F. Photo A-58914 AC, August 6, 1945.
Representative of the Japanese Foreign Minister M. Shigemitsu signs the Japan Surrender Act. September 2, 1945.
Group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s...
The Moscow Victory Parade, June 24, 1945. Found in the collection of Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk.
The King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day', 8 May 1945. King George VI and Queen...
Japanese soldiers in Nagasaki amid the devastation caused by the dropping of the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. The plutonium implosion-type bomb was...
Australian soldiers of the Second Australian Imperial Force use a 25-pounder field gun to pound Japanese positions during the Battle of Balikpapan,...
Bombed damaged buildings and military vehicles show the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of Berlin, Germany. .
Japanese soldiers use handcarts to surrender their equipment to troops of the US Army's 7th Infantry Division in South Korea, September 1945.
Princess Elizabeth is greeted by crowds as she tours the East End of London on the day after VE Day, 9th May 1945.
Imperial Japanese Army troops of the 52nd Division surrender to the 1/10th Gurkha Rifles, 17th Indian Division, near Bago/Pegu, 23 September 1945.
Crowd of Japanese prisoners of war from the Imperial Japanese Army's Thirty-Second Army stand behind a barbed wire fence, inside a stockade camp...
The Royal Family and Winston Churchill greet the people from Buckingham Palace balcony' 8th May 1945. The King and Queen, the two princesses and Mr...
Homeless German refugee tries to console her son amidst the the destruction of post war Germany, Berlin, June 1945.
Princess Elizabeth in the A.T.S., seen here with her mother Queen Elizabeth in 1945. Princess Elizabeth of York, future Elizabeth II, born 1926....
Victory in Europe Day 1945 Moscow-Since the Soviet Union was to the east of Germany, it was May 9 Moscow Time when the German military surrender...
Celebrations begin in New York on the announcement of Germany's surrender at the end of World War II, 7th May 1945. People are holding up copies of...
Crowds on the Champs Elysees celebrate Victory in Europe at the end of World War II with a joyful procession.
King George VI and the Queen with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and WinstonChurchill on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day, London,...
Giacomo Chilesotti, Commander Neptune , in the centre, with young men and women partisans, Berici Hills, April 1945. World War II, Resistance, Italy,...
British girls, of the Picture Division of the London Office of War Information, dance in the street with American soldiers during the V-E Day...
American and Soviet Red Army officers tour the bomb damaged Great Hall of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich Chancellery building on 23rd May 1945 in Berlin,...
Bomb-damaged buildings and military vehicles show the destruction along the Unter Den Linden leading to the Brandenburg Gate in July 1945 following...
From a balcony in the Ministry of Health Building in Whitehall, Mr. Churchill addresses a huge crowd, 8th May 1945. Members of the cabinet were with...
Ecstatic crowds celebrating VE Day in London's Piccadilly, at the end of World War II, 8th May 1945. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1991 - This...
Group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s...
View from the British Sector of Soviet Red Army soldiers and residents passing through the Brandenburg Gate towards Pariser Platz and Unter den...
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.