Celebration of 'Victory over Japan' (VJ) day in Honolulu, Hawaii. Crowd of service men and civilians gathered for the celebration. Marine holds a small child as the child waves. Small child in arms of a parent. Sailors celebrate with their girlfriends, waving American flags. Chinese Dragon paraded through the streets in celebration. Soldiers puts a lei on a WAC and kisses her while she holds a newspaper with headline, 'EXTRA! IT'S PEACE!' Car filled with sailors and a woman wearing a Hawaiian skirt and leis parades through the streets in front of the Max Cohn uniform store. Sailor kisses a Red Cross nurse. Marine kisses and waves. (World War II period).
War Parade on Fifth Avenue, in New York City, United States during World War II. United States flags raised on the buildings. The first float in the Parade is called "Death Rides" and is an effigy of Death, as a cloaked skeleton, astride a gray horse, beating Nazi swastika drums. Another float , entitled: "Pearl Harbor", depicts a Japanese man (Hideki Tojo) stabbing Uncle Sam in the back prodded by other Axis leaders, German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. A Boy Scout Band marches and plays. Boy Scouts of America carry massed American flags. A huge crowd of spectators gathered on the sidewalks. Jeeps and tanks take part in parade. Units of Army and Navy participate in parade. A band of bagpipers in Scottish garb. British and American flags lead contingents of British troops. Unit of U.S. Womens Army Corps (WAC) parades. Policemen all along the line of march.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) arrives in the City of Newport News, Virginia during World War II. Men carry their baggage and disembark from the USS Wasp. WACs (Women's Army Corps ) stand in the foreground. Several documents kept on a table. The troops disembark.
Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright and staff sit opposite Japanese General Masaharu Honma and officers during surrender after fall of Corregidor. General Honmu enters Manila greeted by crowd gathered on the street. People carry large banners. The banners read in Japanese language. The crowd carries Japanese flags. Two WAC's (Women's Army Corps) talk about the situation in the Pacific Theater. Railroad train filled with U.S. army trucks. A United States naval fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. Soldiers disembarking troop ship overseas. Naval guns in view on U.S. warships near wharf. . A P-38, Lightning fighter plane being offloaded onto the dock. A P-38 taking off from a pierced steel plank runway, in the Pacific. (World War II period).
Activities of U.S. soldiers and police in Heidelberg, Germany after World War II. A United States captain inspects baggage of civilians at a railroad station. United States Military Police checks license of a civilian driver of an Opel Super 6 on the streets. Trees in the background. U.S. soldiers frisk civilians on the streets. Women Army Corps (WAC) searches women.
A rest camp in Bains-Le-Bains, France during World War II. Allied soldiers play table tennis. A soldier seated in a chair smokes a cigar. The soldiers play a dart game and chess. A soldier at a desk as he writes a letter and other soldiers in the background read magazines and newspapers. A soldier plays a pool game. A soldier talks to a WAC (Women Army Corps) soldier.