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

Signing the Act of Chapultepec, Mexico (1945)

Various World War II Scenes

Screener: History in Action - One False Step

V-E Day

Interview with Iris Schlapp on her experiences during World War 2

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

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

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

NORMANDY RE-UNION

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.

Japanese Zero Fighters

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

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

D-DAY

Utah Beach Supply Ships

Nagasaki Aftermath

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

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

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

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

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

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

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

WWII Draft

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

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

FRANCE SITU

Liberation of France

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

Burma Refugees

Coutances Ruins

Liberation of France

American Soldiers Train in Panama

D-Day Wounded

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.

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

SMYTH HONOUR

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

Atomic Bomb

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

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

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

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

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

The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice inspect the assembly line of a war plant in Seattle.

Extract from Look at Life: Top People - New Urban Living in the City of London

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

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

WACs in Algiers

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

WASPS

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

Occupation of Germany

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

D-Day Invasion

D-Day, Omaha Beach

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

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

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

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

Liberation of France

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

Walkie Talkies

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

Japan Invasion Preparation

Black Soldiers in WWII

Army Nurses

American military officers tour the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice around various war installations in the Pacific Northwest

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

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

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

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

American Soldiers in Italy

Piles of confiscated clothing, shoes and suitcases at Auschwitz.

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

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

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Invasion of Japanese Mainland

Liberation of Paris

Black Soldiers in WWII & Tuskegee Airmen

Liberation of Normandy

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

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

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

V-Mail is processed and sorted