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

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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

NORMANDY RE-UNION

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

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.

Japanese Zero Fighters

D-DAY

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

WWII Draft

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Utah Beach Supply Ships

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

Nagasaki Aftermath

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.

Einstein and Szilard

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

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.

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

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.

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

Burma Refugees

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

Liberation of France

Liberation of France

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

American Soldiers Train in Panama

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

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Coutances Ruins

FRANCE SITU

SMYTH HONOUR

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

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

D-Day Wounded

WACs in Algiers

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

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

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

D-Day Invasion

WASPS

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

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

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

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.

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

American Soldiers in Italy

Occupation of Germany

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

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

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

Liberation of France

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.

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

Army Nurses

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

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

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

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

Piles of confiscated clothing, shoes and suitcases at Auschwitz.

Liberation of Paris

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

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

D-Day

Liberation of Normandy

Invasion of Japanese Mainland

A British Army officer whose unit liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp explains the work of forcing SS officers to bury the dead, and parsing out food to the starving prisoners.

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

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

Black Soldiers in WWII & Tuskegee Airmen

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

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