V-E Day in London, England during World War II. A number of flags displayed on buildings at Grosvenor Street on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. Several men and women seated and singing at the foot of Nelson's Column. A few of them seated on the statue of the lion guarding the monument. The people seated at the monument singing and cheering.
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.
Swedish Royal carriage carrying King Gustaf V, and wife the Queen, Victoria of Baden, drives past Swedish Royal Guards. King Gustaf V, wearing a very thick coat and a cocked hat, and Queen Victoria alight from the carriage, with valets assisting the royal couple. The King and Queen of Sweden shakes hands with Royal Guards. The Queen walks with her husband to the port to launch a warship, based on porthole count and arrangement on stern, possibly HSwMS Sverige or HSwMS Drottning Victoria, both of which launched from Gothenburg. These were Swedish Sverige-class coastal defence ship (Pansarskepp) vessels.
Apollo 17 Saturn V SA-512 midnight launch at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. Exhaust streaming out the bottom of the Saturn V SA-512 rocket at midnight of December 7, 1972.
Native French horsemen in the palace of Sultan Mohammad V in Rabat, Morocco. The uniformed horsemen with flags, lined up in the courtyard on either side. A Royal Moroccan Guard on a horse. North African terrain. Green grassy hills and fields. Native children playing near straw huts.
Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in German-occupied France during Wolrd War II. A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions dispersed over an area of 3 square kilometers in the forest near L'Isle-Adam. Walls of not more than half a dozen buildings left standing. Tracks of narrow gauge that ran between the buildings appear occasionally from heaps of rubble. Cradle carts for moving bombs and robots rust by the road way. French work men with picks and shovels carve a path through the rubble. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) soldiers lift a mine while others stand guard with captured Mausers, alert for snipers still hiding in the forest.
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