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Day Celebrations, London, 8 May 1945. 'A general view of the tremendous scene in Trafalgar Square'.

VE Day Celebrations, London, 8 May 1945

Day Celebrations, 8 May 1945. 'A general view of the tremendous scene in Trafalgar Square'.

VE Day Celebrations, 8 May 1945

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with the permanent staff of the Felsennest , the Fuhrer Headquarters near Bad Munstereifel, Germany, circa 1940. Hitler used...

Hitler And Entourage

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with Wehrmacht Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge and Commander of the 7th Panzer Division Erwin Rommel , France, circa 1940.

Hitler And Generals

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering and Hitler's Chief adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Schmundt...

Listening To Schmundt

Hitler, Adolf - Politician, NSDAP, Germany*20.04.1889-+- Hitler at a briefing with German generals in Poland; from left: Erwin Rommel, Karl-Heinrich...

Hitler, Adolf - Politician, NSDAP, Germany*20.04.1889-30.04.1945+- Hitler at a briefing with German generals in Poland; from left: Erwin Rommel, Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz, Hitler, Rudolf Schmundt, Wilhelm Keitel, Albert Bormann - September 1939- Phot

British Labour Party politician Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour and National Service in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government, seated...

Ernest Bevin At The Ministry Of Labour

British Army General Sir Claude Auchinleck , Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, posed in the grounds of his residence in New Delhi, India during...

General Sir Claude Auchinleck

Delegates attend a United Nations General Assembly conference taking place in Hoar Hall at Church House in Westminster, London on 15th December 1945.

United Nations General Assembly Conference In London

Lieutenant General Richard K Sutherland of the United States Army watches as Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese...

Signing The Japanese Instrument Of Surrender, 1945

Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery , Commander-in-Chief of the Allied 21st Army Group receives German Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg ,...

World War Two: Europe 1945

American military officer Richard K Sutherland watches as Japanese military officer General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, signs...

Signing The Japanese Instrument Of Surrender, 1945

Scenes inside the Ohrdruf Nazi Concentration Camp as Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D Eisenhower and Generals George S Patton, Omar Bradley and...

Ohrdruf Nazi Concentration Camp 1945

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler visits the First World War memorial to the Canadian soldiers killed at Vimy Ridge, France, circa 1940. With him is Wehrmacht...

Hitler At Vimy Ridge

The head of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht V. Keitel signs the Act on the unconditional surrender of the German armed...

General Keitel signs the Act on the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces.

General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito at Allied GHQ in Tokyo. September 17, 1945.

Japan/USA: General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito at Allied GHQ in Tokyo. September 17, 1945

Labour Party supporter puts up a poster reading 'A Non-stop Drive to Provide a Good Home for Every Family - Vote Labour', in the run-up to the...

1945 General Election

John McNair, General Secretary of the ILP addresses the Fifth Pan-African Congress, held at Chorlton-upon-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester, 15th -...

Pan-African Congress

Clement Attlee , leader of the Labour Party, celebrates after his 1945 General Election victory. 2nd from the left is his wife, Violet. Far left is...

Clement Attlee Celebrates After His 1945 General Election Victory

American military aircraft during a fly-past in the skies over the 16-inch guns on US Navy battleship USS Missouri during the surrender of Japan...

World War II - Surrender Of Japan

Labour Party politician Clement Attlee , new Prime Minister elect, speaks at a victory rally in Central Hall, Westminster, London after results were...

Labour Party Wins 1945 United Kingdom General Election

General Hermann Foertsch, Commander of German 1st Army and his delegation of staff officers walk away after signing the unconditional surrender of...

World War Two: Europe 1945

Column of General Motors T17E1 Staghound Armoured Cars of the 18th Armoured Car Regiment , 2nd Canadian Division wait to make a crossing of the Rhine...

World War Two: Europe 1945

Major General Thomas Wynford Rees of the British Indian Army, 19th Indian Infantry Division, stands in centre with celebrating British troops after...

Major General Thomas Wynford Rees In Burma

American military commander Lieutenant General George S. Patton talks with Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe , Bastogne, France, December 28, 1944....

Patton & McAuliffe In Bastogne

American military commander General of the Army Douglas MacArthur , with other senior Army officers, stands with his hands on hips at Naval Air...

General MacArthur & Others At NAF Atsugi

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler dines alfresco with a group of generals, circa 1940. With him is SS leader Heinrich Himmler .

Hitler Dines Alfresco

President Harry Truman and General Dwight Eisenhower smile and talk at the end of World War II.

Truman and Eisenhower

American Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton stand with President Harry S. Truman in 1945, just after the end of World War II in...

Eisenhower, Patton, and Truman

General Douglas MacArthur watches as representatives of Japan stand aboard USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender ending World...

General Douglas MacArthur

Adolf Hitler with General Walther von Reichenau at a map briefing during the Invasion of Poland, September 1939. At far right is Reichsführer-SS...

Hitler And Von Reichenau In Poland

Tokyo Bay, Japan- The General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, signs as the Supreme Allied Commander during a formal ceremony on the U.S.S. Missouri...

MacArthur Signing at Japanese Surrender

New York: General of the Army and Supreme Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower sat for this portrait during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria...

General Dwight D. Eisenhower Posing near American Flag

Washington, D. C.--General De Gaulle At Press Confab. This is candid view of General Charles DeGaulle, President of the French Provisional...

French General Charles De Gaulle at His Desk

General view of Nuremberg International Military Tribunal court taken in September 1946, during the war crimes trial of nazi leaders during the world...

WW2-NUREMBERG-TRIAL

American military personnel during the surrender of Japan ceremony on the deck of US Navy battleship USS Missouri , anchored in Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2nd...

World War II - Surrender Of Japan

American military officer Colonel EH Tench, of the General Headquarters for the Supreme Allied Command Pacific , in conversation with Japanese...

World War II - Naval Air Facility Atsugi

General George S. Patton , commander of the 3rd US Army, 1945. Patton is wearing an 'Ike' jacket, a military uniform blouson named after General...

Pictured: British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery reads the terms of the Surrender Agreement of German Forces in North West Germany, Denmark, and...

NBC News: World War II- German Surrender

British Intelligence Officer shows General Takazo Numata of the Japanese Southern Army where to place his signature during the formal surrender of...

Japanese Army Surrender In Rangoon, Burma

General Navta and other officers of the Japanese Southern Army arrive by plane prior to signing the formal surrender of all Japanese forces in South...

Japanese Army Surrender In Rangoon, Burma

Polling clerks load ballot boxes from storage at Camberwell Town Hall into the back of a lorry for distribution to local polling stations ahead of...

Preparations Ahead of The 1945 General Election

Major-General Lewis Lyne , General officer commanding 7th Armourded Division of the British Army, takes the salute as British troops from the 11th...

British Army Enters Berlin At End Of War In Europe

General view of over 11,000 German Wehrmacht prisoners of war held at the Kaiserslautern Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosure after surrendering to...

World War Two: Europe 1945

General Douglas MacArthur with his famous corncob pipe, c. 1945.

USA: General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) with his famous corncob pipe, c. 1945

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, CG, 12th Army Group, examine a suitcase of silverware, part of German...

USA/Germany: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, CG, 12th Army Group, examine a suitcase of silverware, part of German loot stored in Merkers salt mine, 12 April, 1945

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States...

Japan / USA: General Douglas MacArthur, bearing no side weapon but carrying a corncob pipe, lands on Japanese soil for the first time at Atsugi Airdrome, 1945.

Polish troops of the 2nd Polish Corps entered Bologna. Gen. Klemens Rudnicki shakes hands with Gen. Marek Clark. General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko is...

Polish troops of the 2nd Polish Corps entered Bologna. Gen. Klemens Rudnicki (behind the wheel) shakes hands with Gen. Marek Clark. General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko is sitting in the front seat ca. April 21, 1945

Major General Charles Gerhardt , commander of the 29th Infantry Division, United States Ninth Army walks through the shell and bomb damaged buildings...

World War Two Europe 1945

Two young schoolboys look down on the crater and damage from the explosion caused by V-2 Vergeltungswaffe 2 long-range liquid fueled guided ballistic...

WW2 Home Front 1945

Lieutenant General Leslie Groves Jr. United States Army officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a...

General Leslie Groves Jr.

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevskiy , Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and...

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevskiy (1895 – 1977), Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943

During the Sicily Campaign, British Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery points to a map of Sicily while US Army Lieutenant General George S Patton...

Montgomery And Patton

General Charles de Gaulle and General Leclerc in Paris, France in October 1945.

Charles De Gaulle in Paris

General George Patton arriving at St Vith, Belgium, January 30, 1945.

US General George Patton arriving at St Vith, Belgium, January 30, 1945

De Gaulle, Then Head Of The Provisional Government And General Leclerc, Commandant Of The French Army Corps, Before A Review Of The 2Nd Armored...

Generals De Gaulle And Leclerc In Landsberg, 1945

Day. The crowds assemble. This morning 's scenes of the Great Gathering at Buckingham Palace, General views of the crowds at the Palace, 8th May 1945.

VE Day. The crowds assemble. This morning's scenes of the Great Gathering at Buckingham Palace.

General Franco meeting Adolf Hitler , at the Franco-Spanish border, on October 23, 1940.

Hitler And Franco

The American Allies in Paris, from left to right: Generals Dwight Eisenhower , George Marshall , Secretary of State James Byrnes and General Omar...

The American Allies in Paris,

Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during...

Douglas MacArthur.

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