Princess Elizabeth, future Elizabeth II, born 1926. Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Seen here in 1945 in the uniform...
Japanese man with a bicycle walks through the ruins of Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945.
Group of Allied soldiers stand on a balcony of the wrecked and bombed out New Reich Chancellery on Vossstrasse near Potsdamer Platz in the centre of...
The King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day', 8 May 1945. King George VI and Queen...
American and Soviet Red Army officers tour the bomb damaged Great Hall of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich Chancellery building on 23rd May 1945 in Berlin,...
The Royal Family and Winston Churchill greet the people from Buckingham Palace balcony' 8th May 1945. The King and Queen, the two princesses and Mr...
Princess Elizabeth in the A.T.S., seen here with her mother Queen Elizabeth in 1945. Princess Elizabeth of York, future Elizabeth II, born 1926....
King George VI and the Queen with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and WinstonChurchill on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day, London,...
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.
Japanese toddler sits crying amidst the rubble left by the explosion in Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city...
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.
German grave digger holding a spade and civilians from the town of Ludwigslust are forced to bury victims of Nazi Germany's effort to exterminate the...
First Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by B-29 Superfortresses, U.S. Army, A.A.F. Photo A-58914 AC, August 6, 1945.
The ruins of central Hiroshima, September 1945. On 6th August that year, the atomic bomb 'Little Boy', was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29...
Civilians fill the streets of Milan to celebrate their liberation by Italian partizans from the Nazi German forces and Fascist regime of occupation...
Three women walk along bombed damaged streets and buildings showing the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of...
Small girl seated in a pram decorated with a union flag as she prepares to celebrate Victory in Europe Day to mark the end of European conflict in...
Group of young women office workers shout and cheer from a balcony as they celebrate Victory in Europe Day to mark the end of European conflict in...
Day Celebrations, 8 May 1945. 'An Australian solider leads the victory revellers that include service men and women and civilians'.
Day Celebrations in London. His Majesty the King, Premier Winston Churchill and Chiefs of Staff were photographed in the grounds of Buckingham Palace...
Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, celebrating on the eve of VE Day, 7 May 1945. Photograph by F Greaves.
Australian soldiers of the Second Australian Imperial Force use a 25-pounder field gun to pound Japanese positions during the Battle of Balikpapan,...
Princess Elizabeth is greeted by crowds as she tours the East End of London on the day after VE Day, 9th May 1945.
Princess Elizabeth inspecting the Girls' Training Corps, 1945. Princess Elizabeth of York, future Elizabeth II, born 1926. Queen of the United...
Four Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the XXI Bomber Command, part of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command , on a bombing raid over...
Publication at a news-stand in America announces the surrender of the last German units on V-E Day, signalling Victory in Europe.
Delegates attend a United Nations General Assembly conference taking place in Hoar Hall at Church House in Westminster, London on 15th December 1945.
Group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s...
View of revellers, including local young men and women along with soldiers and sailors from Britain's armed forces, celebrating on top of a lorry as...
Families of refugees haul their children and possessions on wooden carts and prams along a wrecked and bombed out city centre street as they return...
The Moscow Victory Parade, June 24, 1945. Found in the collection of Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk.
Japanese soldiers in Nagasaki amid the devastation caused by the dropping of the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. The plutonium implosion-type bomb was...
Bombed damaged buildings and military vehicles show the destruction of the city in July 1945 following the allied occupation of Berlin, Germany. .