World War II in Color - End of the War

Interview with Iris Schlapp on her experiences during World War 2

Crowds gather at the Walter Bulter Shipbuilders shipyard as Liberty Ships are launched sideways during World War II.

Extract from World In Action - An Island at War

Various World War II Scenes

United States Entry to World War II

United States Entry to World War II

Soldiers enter Fort Saint-Nicolas and crowds celebrate the liberation of Marseilles by cheering for parading Allied troops in World War 2.

London During World War II

World War II in Colour: American / Japanese Air Battle

London

Nazis build an Atlantic Wall consisting of obstacles and bunkers and heavy guns in preparation for the Normandy Invasion in World War 2.

That Justice Be Done 1945 World War Two film movie nazi war crimes nuremberg trials

V-E Day

Nagasaki Bombing

Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie is restored and Italian prisoners of war are marched out of Libya in the aftermath of a British victory during World War 2.

Extract from World in Action: America Talking - Anti-war demonstrators converge on Washington DC (1970)

Signing the Act of Chapultepec, Mexico (1945)

Screener: History in Action - One False Step

AUSTRALIAN & OVERSEAS WAR VETERANS RETURN TO NORTHERN FRANCE TO COMMEMORATE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY LANDING IN NORMANDY

D Day preview from Omaha Beach

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

Screener World In Action: An Island at War

Food and supplies are transported via truck from Aachen to refugee camp during WW2.

PHILLIP ELGER RE HIS EXPERIENCE AS WIRELESS OPERATOR ON LANCASTER BOMBER FLYING DIVERSIONARY MISSIONS TO DRAW ENEMY FIRE ON D-DAY

Little girls in kimonos hold a tea ceremony with their dolls in Tokyo.

First part of a newsreel about the bombing of Japan, showing shots of devastated Hiroshima from the air and from the ground, including people walking with umbrellas.

Nazis load mortars and other large artillery, firing on Warsaw in the siege of the city.

Japanese Zero Fighters

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

A female war correspondent prepares questions for a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp.

D DAY VETs fly to Normandy to commemorate Day Day 50 years on

Vera Lynn Interview

Boys drink tea by an altar holding several figurines in traditional dress in Tokyo.

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

AUDIO ONLY: INTERVIEW JOHN MARDEN, A LOCAL PORT AUGUSTA MAN, REMEMBERS HIS D-DAY LANDING ON NORMANDY BEACH 50 YEARS AGO TODAY.

IV STAN LANDS, IV BERNIE NELSON, IV TOM HERBERT, IV BASIL RACHINGER, SHIP ARRIVES CHERBOURG HARBOUR

A doctor who's been brought to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation describes the conditions she found in the women's camp

Alfred Rosenberg describes the Nazi Party's rise in 1932 Berlin.

Burma Refugees

Nagasaki Aftermath

Einstein and Szilard

FORMER AUSTRALIAN BOMBER CREW MEMBER DENNIS KELLY/DENNIS 'NED' KELLY RETURNS WITH HIS SON TO FRANCE TO THANK FRENCH VILLAGERS WHO SAVED HIS LIFE

NORMANDY RE-UNION

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

D-DAY

LIberated Italian civilians watch as German troops depart Milan during WW2.

Coutances Ruins

Exteriors of MGM and Paramount studios include advertisements for war bonds and a roll of honor listing employees who are in the service.

Utah Beach Supply Ships

A narrator covers a montage favorably comparing industrious Jewish populations to those engaging in more solemn traditions of the past in Israel.

Atomic Bomb

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

THE WORLD TODAY - D Day

Extract from Viewpoint 90 - Ivan the Terrible: A Case of Mistaken Identity?

American Soldiers Train in Panama

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

Occupation of Germany

ROBERT BIDGRAIN SPEECHES, FLAG GIFT CEREMONY, D-DAY VETERANS BUS TOUR

D-Day Wounded

Liberation of France

Liberation of France

FRANCE SITU

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

Workers on a pier in New York Harbor prepare for the docking of an American Export Lines ship.

WWII Draft

British soldiers inspect the rubble of the bombed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

SMYTH HONOUR

JOHN RITCHIE IS A VETERAN OF WWII D-DAY AND THIS YEAR MARKS THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY

Women operate the air draft machines which put V-Mail onto microfilm. Men develop the film and load mail bags.

Army Nurses

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

Men and women process incoming V-Mail at a military outpost, enlarging the microfilm and cutting the letters.

A mushroom cloud rises from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Atomic bomb damage sustained by a Mitsubishi factory and other defense plants in Nagasaki.

Piles of confiscated dentures, razors, brushes and eyeglasses at Auschwitz.

British soldiers inspect the rubble of the bombed Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

The Future Project 2025: Sandra talks on Stephen Graham, Years and Years, Far right and racism

Alfred Rosenberg describes the early Nazi struggle for power.

Extract from Viewpoint 90 - Ivan the Terrible: A Case of Mistaken Identity? John Demjanjuk's legal tram asks for withheld statements to be handed ober to the defence

Japan Invasion Preparation

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

V-Mail is processed and sorted

WASPS

Adolf Hitler looks through a periscope to watch the damage done by Nazis shelling Warsaw, now a burning city.

D-Day Invasion

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY CEREMONY IN TROARN, SAINT-SAMSON GRAVEYARD

Liberation of France

WACs in Algiers

The British Army helps put Emperor Selassie back in power of Ethiopia, chasing out Italian forces.

Invasion of Japanese Mainland

Commandant Josef Kramer and SS guards are taken into custody by the British liberators of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Liberation of Normandy

A British Army officer who helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp reports on what his men discovered there and how they are helping survivors