Civilians fill the streets of Milan to celebrate their liberation by Italian partizans from the Nazi German forces and Fascist regime of occupation...
Pictured: An NBC TV crew filming the 1945 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
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...
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...
Imperial Japanese Army troops of the 52nd Division surrender to the 1/10th Gurkha Rifles, 17th Indian Division, near Bago/Pegu, 23 September 1945.
Filipino civilians go about their daily routine, whilst others flee down a street with shops engulfed in flames during the Battle of Manila. Metro...
Japanese prisoner of war, captured on Guam, weeps after hearing Emperor Hirohito's surrender, August 15, 1945.
Japanese delegation, led by Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, approaching the table to sign the surrender aboard the US battleship USS Missouri, September...
Princess Elizabeth is greeted by crowds as she tours the East End of London on the day after VE Day, 9th May 1945.
American soldiers in a partially destroyed Japanese fortification keep their rifles trained on Japanese positions across the Pasig River during the...
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...
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...
Three women walk along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of...
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...
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...
Surrender of the Kwantung army. The Kwantung Army was stationed in Manchukuo and was one of the main Japanese fighting forces during the Second...
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...
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...
The Japanese surrender to the Allied Powers in August, 1945. It meant the end of the most disastrous world war for people everywhere. To the Koreans,...
Raising the United States Flag after the Surrender of Japanese Forces in Southern Korea, September 1945. During surrender ceremonies at Seoul, Korea,...
The US battleship USS Missouri passing through the Panama Canal into the Atlantic ocean, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, New Series, No 18, November...
Japanese orphans whose parents were killed, or who were abandoned during the Battle of Okinawa, eating their meagre rations in Koza Orphanage....
Filipino man takes the shoes of a dead Japanese soldier near City Hall during the Battle of Manila, February 1945.
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...
German civilian woman bandages the hand of a young teenage Wehrmacht conscript soldier after surrendering to a unit from the United States Ninth Army...
Giacomo Chilesotti, Commander Neptune , in the centre, with young men and women partisans, Berici Hills, April 1945. World War II, Resistance, Italy,...
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...
First Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by B-29 Superfortresses, U.S. Army, A.A.F. Photo A-58914 AC, August 6, 1945.
Wrecked German 88mm anti-aircraft flak gun standing in front of the bomb damaged ruins of the Reichstag in July 1945 following the allied occupation...
Corporal Russell M. Ochwad, of Chicago, playing the part of Adolf Hitler makes the Nazi salute on the balcony of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin,...
View from the British Sector of Soviet Red Army soldiers and residents passing through the Brandenburg Gate towards Pariser Platz and Unter den...
Senior Jewish Chaplain to the British 2nd Army, Reverend Leslie Hardman stands over the bodies of dead prisoners laying in mass grave number 2 for...
Woman walks along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city following the allied occupation of Berlin, Germany, July...
Victory Party For Children In South London. Children sat down to a Victory Party given by flat residents at Kentwell Close, Brockley in South London....
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...