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

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.

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

NORMANDY RE-UNION

Japanese Zero Fighters

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

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

Utah Beach Supply Ships

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

D-DAY

Nagasaki Aftermath

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.

Einstein and Szilard

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

WWII Draft

Liberation of France

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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

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

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

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

FRANCE SITU

Burma Refugees

Coutances Ruins

Liberation of France

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

American Soldiers Train in Panama

D-Day Wounded

Atomic Bomb

SMYTH HONOUR

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

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

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

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.

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

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

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

WACs in Algiers

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

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

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

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

WASPS

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

Occupation of Germany

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

D-Day, Omaha Beach

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

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

D-Day Invasion

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

Liberation of France

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

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

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

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

Army Nurses

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

Black Soldiers in WWII

Japan Invasion Preparation

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

American Soldiers in Italy

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

Piles of confiscated clothing, shoes and suitcases at Auschwitz.

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

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

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

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Invasion of Japanese Mainland

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.

Black Soldiers in WWII & Tuskegee Airmen

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

Liberation of Paris

V-Mail is processed and sorted

Liberation of Normandy

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

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