World War II in Color - End of the War

Interview with Iris Schlapp on her experiences during World War 2

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

Various World War II Scenes

Extract from World In Action - An Island at War

United States Entry to World War II

United States Entry to World War II

London During World War II

World War II in Colour: American / Japanese Air Battle

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London

V-E Day

Nagasaki Bombing

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.

Extract from World in Action: America Talking - Anti-war demonstrators converge on Washington DC (1970)

Signing the Act of Chapultepec, Mexico (1945)

Screener: History in Action - One False Step

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

Long line of German prisoners march under US guard.

D Day preview from Omaha Beach

Screener World In Action: An Island at War

Atomic bomb damage sustained by war plants in Nagasaki.

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

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

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.

Wartime Nurses War Bonds

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

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

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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

Japanese Zero Fighters

Vera Lynn Interview

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

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

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

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

Burma Refugees

NORMANDY RE-UNION

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

ABC MELBOURNE DRIVE PROGRAM

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

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

Einstein and Szilard

D-DAY

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

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

Nagasaki Aftermath

Adolf Hitler meets with political figures in Hungary.

THE WORLD TODAY - D Day

Coutances Ruins

Pearl Harbor Attack in Color

American Soldiers Train in Panama

Rules for writing V-Mail are explained.

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Utah Beach Supply Ships

Extract from Viewpoint 90 - Ivan the Terrible: A Case of Mistaken Identity?

Father John Siemes, Hiroshima Witness

WWII Draft

Nurses at North African Field Hospital / British Invasion of Sicily

Liberation of France

Atomic Bomb

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

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.

Black Soldiers 1940s-1950s

D-Day Wounded

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

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

SMYTH HONOUR

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

Occupation of Germany

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

D-Day Invasion

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

Liberation of France

Japan Invasion Preparation

WACs in Algiers

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

Liberation of France and Aerial Combat

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

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

FRANCE SITU

Horse-drawn carriages are driven past lakes in Tokyo.

The atomic bomb explodes in Nagasaki, Japan

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

The Future Project 2025: Sandra talks on Stephen Graham, Years and Years, Far right and racism

A female doctor who's been brought to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp explains that Nazis performed medical experiments on prisoners there

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

Army Nurses

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

Nazi flags hang from buildings in occupied Warsaw, Poland.

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

WASPS

Black Soldiers in WWII

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

Hiroshima Bomb Damage

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.

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

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

Alfred Rosenberg describes the early Nazi struggle for power.

D-Day, Omaha Beach