World War II in Color - End of the War

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

London During World War II

United States Entry to World War II

United States Entry to World War II

London

Various World War II Scenes

Signing the Act of Chapultepec, Mexico (1945)

Screener: History in Action - One False Step

Interview with Iris Schlapp on her experiences during World War 2

V-E Day

World War II in Colour: American / Japanese Air Battle

Nagasaki Bombing

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

D Day preview from Omaha Beach

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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

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

NORMANDY RE-UNION

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

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.

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

Japanese Zero Fighters

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

D-DAY

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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

Utah Beach Supply Ships

WWII Draft

Nagasaki Aftermath

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.

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

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

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

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

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

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

FRANCE SITU

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

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

Einstein and Szilard

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

Liberation of France

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

SMYTH HONOUR

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

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

D-Day Wounded

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Coutances Ruins

Burma Refugees

Liberation of France

American Soldiers Train in Panama

Atomic Bomb

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

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

D-Day, Omaha Beach

WASPS

D-Day Invasion

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

WACs in Algiers

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

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

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

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

Black Soldiers in WWII

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

Japan Invasion Preparation

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

American Soldiers in Italy

Occupation of Germany

Liberation of France

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

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

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

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

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

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

Army Nurses

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

Surrounded by other liberated prisoners, a survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp describes the living conditions and the hope felt when American liberators came.

A panorama of Tokyo ends at the sea with sailboats moving on the water.

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

Piles of confiscated clothing, shoes and suitcases at Auschwitz.

Liberation of Paris

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

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Invasion of Japanese Mainland

V-Mail is processed and sorted

Liberation of Normandy

Black Soldiers in WWII & Tuskegee Airmen

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

Russian soldiers sort through piles of clothing and shoes confiscated at Auschwitz, including children's clothes.

A man picks up a small box of a relative's remains at a crypt in Hiroshima, Japan, and hands them to a woman to pray over

Panorama of small boxes of human remains inside a crypt in Hiroshima, Japan, where a girl is praying and a man enters.

American Soldiers in India

D-Day

A female doctor who's been brought to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation explains how SS officers withheld medicine and food from the prisoners there