V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) celebrations in Paris, France at the end of World War II. Eternal light under Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). The Tomb of Unknown Soldier decorated with flowers and civilians pay respect. Parisians applaud. Floral piece of French insignia carried by two British soldiers. Ceremonies around the Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Loudspeakers being used in ceremony. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft dives and goes in a Victory Roll.
Views of British Gloster Meteor twin-engine jet aircraft, of the 616 Squadron, parked on grass field at Fassberg, Germany, after the end of World War II, in Europe.
Near end of World War II in Europe. United States 9th Air Force P-47 aircraft, virtually unopposed, strafe German targets on the ground. Gun camera footage from P-47s of the 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron, flown by pilots Dugan, and Pantoliano, respectively. Burning German airplanes on an airfield. Other targets being struck. Slate at start of clip identifies home airbase as A-82 (Verdun Airbase, France).
Nazi concentration camps seen after being liberated at end of World War II in Europe. Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visits the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Surrounded by crowds of U.S. soldiers, he views the remains of dead victims. A man demonstrates how a device is used to punish inmates. Scene shifts to the Buchenwald camp, where political prisoners were kept,. and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Survivors are seen in pitiful condition from starvation, torture, deprivation and sickness. Burned skeletons of human bodies in the ovens. German female concentration camp guards (SS guards known as Aufseherinnen) walking in a line and then seen in formation. SS (Schutzstaffel) concentration camp guards, both men and women, and their leader, Josef Kramer, Commandant of the Belsen camp, seen forming up, and then marching off and being taken into custody.
Victory in Europe Day celebrated in London, England towards the end of World War II. Welsh Guards, an infantry regiment of the British Army, parade in front of Buckingham Palace. A band of musicians also parade along with the Welsh Guards. People move around the Mall. People cheer and applaud as they move.
V-E Day in London, England during World War II. A few British nurses attending to a wounded person during the crowding on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. The wounded laid on a stretcher on a sidewalk. An officer standing beside them. A woman sitting on a bench on the sidewalk. The woman on the stretcher covered with a blanket. The nurses sitting on the bench beside the woman. The nurses attending to injured people on the sidewalk.