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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

NORMANDY RE-UNION

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

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

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

D-DAY

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

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

Utah Beach Supply Ships

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

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

Nagasaki Aftermath

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

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

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

WWII Draft

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.

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Liberation of France

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

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FRANCE SITU

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

Einstein and Szilard

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

D-Day Wounded

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

Coutances Ruins

Burma Refugees

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

Atomic Bomb

Liberation of France

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

American Soldiers Train in Panama

SMYTH HONOUR

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

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

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

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

WACs in Algiers

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

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

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

WASPS

Occupation of Germany

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

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

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

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

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

D-Day Invasion

Japan Invasion Preparation

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

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.

D-Day, Omaha Beach

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

Black Soldiers in WWII

Army Nurses

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

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

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

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

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

American Soldiers in Italy

Liberation of Paris

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Piles of confiscated clothing, shoes and suitcases at Auschwitz.

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

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

Liberation of Normandy

Invasion of Japanese Mainland

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

V-Mail is processed and sorted

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

D-Day

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

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.

Alfred Rosenberg describes the early Nazi struggle for power.