Civilians fill the streets of Milan to celebrate their liberation by Italian partizans from the Nazi German forces and Fascist regime of occupation...
Bomb blast ruins after U.S. Air Force air raids, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, Stanley Troutman, ACME, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper...
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...
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.
People dancing in the streets of London during the celebrations for VE Day. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1991 - This Was VE Day In London -...
Princess Elizabeth is greeted by crowds as she tours the East End of London on the day after VE Day, 9th May 1945.
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...
Pictured: An NBC TV crew filming the 1945 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
Two men walking among the rubble destroyed by bombs after U.S. Air Force air raids, Tokyo, Japan, Stanley Troutman, ACME, New York World-Telegram and...
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...
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 Royal Family and Winston Churchill greet the people from Buckingham Palace balcony' 8th May 1945. The King and Queen, the two princesses and Mr...
First Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by B-29 Superfortresses, U.S. Army, A.A.F. Photo A-58914 AC, August 6, 1945.
Photograph taken during the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945. Dated 20th Century.
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...
Students from London University stage an impromptu VE Day parade. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1991 - This Was VE Day In London - pub. 1945
Day party, Dunstan Street, Netherfield, Nottinghamshire, May 1945. VE Day finally arrived on 8th May, 1945 after fierce efforts by the allied forces....
Filipino civilians go about their daily routine, whilst others flee down a street with shops engulfed in flames during the Battle of Manila. Metro...
American soldiers in a partially destroyed Japanese fortification keep their rifles trained on Japanese positions across the Pasig River during the...
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...
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.
Mrs Pat Burgess of Palmers Green, North London waves a newspaper containing the news of Germany's surrender in World War II. She hopes this means...
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...
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...
From left, standing, the crew of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, Lt Col John Porter, ground maintenance officer, Major Theodore J...
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day,VE Day, or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal...
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...
Day party, Park Avenue, Carlton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, May 1945. VE Day finally arrived on 8th May, 1945 after fierce efforts by the allied...
Crowds on the Champs Elysees celebrate Victory in Europe at the end of World War II with a joyful procession.
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...
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....
April 1945 The portrait of Benito Mussolini thrown to the ground in the trash at the end of the war in Milan. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini...
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,...
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...
King George VI and the Queen with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and WinstonChurchill on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day, London,...
High-angle view of crowds of people celebrating VJ Day, some climbing on the Victoria Memorial, on The Mall outside Buckingham Palace in Westminster,...
Infantrymen of the United States 7th Army scramble from their assault boat and head up the eastern bank of the Rhine River near Frankenthal during...
Princess Elizabeth, future Elizabeth II, born 1926. Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Seen here in 1945 in the uniform...
Day, held to commemorate the official end of World War II in Europe, is celebrated by crowds at Trafalgar Square in London, 8th May 1945.
German civilian woman bandages the hand of a young teenage Wehrmacht conscript soldier after surrendering to a unit from the United States Ninth Army...
Waffen-SS soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper accused of killing 84 American prisoners of war at Malmedy in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge are...
