British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is seen on the balcony of the Alþingi (Parliament House) in Reykjavik, Iceland on August 17, 1941, when he visited during voyage home from the Atlantic Conference in Newfoundland, in World War 2. To his left are Icelandic Prime Minister Hermann Jonasson and Regent Sveinn Björnsson. Churchill appears to make brief remarks to a group of civilian Icelanders assembled in the plaza below. The crowd is passive. Some take photographs. (Iceland is under British occupation at this time.)
War production and manufacturing of ordnance in United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry Kaiser in a car outside an ordnance factory, United States. A large crowd gathered around the car. President speaks to a man. A woman presents a file to the President.
Demobilization of Red Army at the end of World War II. A view of a coast with a hill in the background. Men carry a flag. Red Army officers with medals decorated on their uniforms. Soviet flag waves. A memorial at the coast.
Soviet troops march at a victory parade in Red Square after the Allied victory over Germany in World War II. Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikita Khrushchev, General Semen Budennyi and other officials atop Lenin's tomb as they review the victory parade. Nazi German flags and banners thrown at the foot of Lenin's tomb. High ranking Soviet military officers are seen watching the parade.
Soviet Army General Nikolai Vatutin, during World War 2. He looks towards the sky with a pair of binoculars hanging around his neck.
End of World War II. A Soviet Army officer sits at a desk with a telephone in the background. Officer speaks.
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