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Picture shows Mrs Challice, from Canada, along with twins Joanne and Shelley (note* the word shelley is hard to read but Mirrorpix think it must be " Shelley")
British Mountain Trooper smiling for the camera during WWII. 13th April 1945
Royal Airforce flyers, recovering from broken limbs, are encouraged to use the dance floor in an attempt to aid fitness. Picture taken in The Midlands. Picture taken 26th May 1945
Museum Street, Piccadilly Circus, London, W1 VJ Day. Victory over Japan Day. 15th August 1945
A world war hospital ship The Letitia, at Liverpool, Merseyside. Picture taken 2nd February 1945
Mrs Lotus Lee-Chang (Lulu to her friends) whose husband is an Army lieutenant, fighting somewhere in China. The British WRENS congratulate her on Japan collapse. Picture taken on VJ Day
Queen Victoria Square, Hull, Yorkshire on Victory in Europe Day. VE Day. Picture taken 8th May 1945
Victory over Japan Day, VJ Day, the crowds at Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria Statue. Picture taken 15th August 1945
Servicemen and women dancing in the streets of London on VJ Day after Japan surrendered to the Allies. 15th August 1945. Location is Great Windmill Street
A male and female soldier embrace on hearing the news that Japan has surrenders in World War Two. Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) would be made official on a few days later on 15th August 1945
Manila on fire as US forces liberate Philippine capital. Fires, demolished buildings and a destroyed bridge form part of the destruction i the wake of the Japanese garrison whose desperate resistance
Allied supplies, tanks and mobile artillery crosses the Rhine during the Second World War. 28th March 1945
Two Londoners, Private F. Hicks and Private H. Jacobs, chat with an Iraqi labourer at the second " Clapham Junction" railway station which is situated on a miniature railway at a Base
In liberated Norway. The bomb proof submarine pens at Trondheim, Norway. May 1945
Inhabitants of Kautokeino after their homes were razed to the ground by retreating Germans. Pictured, some of the inhabitants who managed to obtain some material to build a small hut. March 1945
Two men with a single objective - the defeat of the Japanese. An Australian sergeant talking to a native chief from Lului village in New Britain (Papua New Guinea). 9th January 1945
Attack on a Norwegian fjord by R. A. F. Beaufighters. March 1945Attack on a Norwegian fjord by R.A.F. Beaufighters. March 1945
In November 1944 the Germans carried out a forced evacuation of the civilian population in the interior of Finnmark and burnt all the homes to the ground
Picture shows a service on board a hospital ship in Southampton. The Solent. Picture taken circa 10th August 1945
Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion the Essex Regiment street fighting in the heart of Arnhem. 14th April 1945
Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) 15th August 1945. Crowds outside Buckingham Palace. London. Picture taken 15th August 1945
August 1945. Peacetime for Europe. Picture shows the Berlin, and the ATS (The Auxiliary Territorial Service) on Bank Holiday
British Soldiers attack Weeze. British troops fighting their way south eastward between the Ms and the Rhine entered the important German centre of Weeze on 2nd March 1945
To celebrate 21st Army Groups victory over their German enemies, a salvo of 21 rounds each from 24 3.7 a guns was fired at Field Marshal Montgomerys HQ at 3pm on Saturday 5th May 1945
RAF Bomb damage in captured Hanover, Germany. The machsee large lake south of Hanover which has been camouflaged with floating wood slats, strung together, to simulate earth
The rail tracks at Hamm, Germany. This stretch of railway was a regular target for the Royal Air Force, during World War Two
Lieutenants A Sten, (Burnley, Lancashire), of the field regiment, Royal Artillery, synchronises his watch with the Brigade Headquarters over phone, prior to a barrage on Pinwe. Circa January 1945
Royal Artillery battery fire against the Japanese in Pinwe. Circa January 1945
Troops of the 15th Scottish Division cleared the town of Uelzen of April 19th, 1945. Picture shows troops of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. April 1945
German civilians hurry past a burning building in Bamberg, that is on the verge of collapse. April 1945
British troops occupying Kleve eliminating snipers. Circa February 1945
German male civilians of military age in the town of Uerdingen are assembled by Military Police of the 9th US Army for identification. March 1945
The key point town of Goch, now cleared of the Germans by British troops is being subjected to shellfire by the retreating enemy. Pictured, a Bren carrier dashing away after a near miss
By order of the Military Government already established in Krefeld, Germany, civilians are turning in all sorts of weapons. March 1945
A British infantryman takes cover under the ruins of a building in Kleve, as a tank machine gunner, further down the street, fires at German snipers. February 1945
A South African Air Force plane flies over a surrendering U-Boat near Gibraltar. The H. MA South African Air Force plane flies over a surrendering U-Boat near Gibraltar. The H.M.S Lowestoft is pictured in the background. 2nd June 1945
Soldiers in Hospital Blue, presented with prizes at the Red Cross and St John Donoughmore Club, Chesterfield Gardens, for their handiwork. The prizes are National Savings
Every Friday evening 100 housewives on the Lapal Estate at Quinton, Birmingham, stage a strike. They leave their husbands in charge at home and go to keep fit class. 4th February 1945
Contrast between the old and new East African soldier is starkly contrasted through these striking figures of an Nogomi warrior and a Somalian operating a mortar. 9th February 1945
Front line burial of a British soldier shot by Japanese on the road to Mandalay. Pictured, British soldiers of the 36th Division prepare to bury a comrade along the road north of Pinwe. January 1945
British troops landing near Elephant point near Rangoon (Yangdon). May 1945
After surrounding the town of Uelzen troops of the 15th Scottish Division cleared it on April 19th, after days of stiff street fighting
HM the King has created seven new medal awards for Services in the War. Six are Campaign Stars and one is a Defence Medal. 1 8 May 1945
Lieutenant Commander Freddy Charlton lands his burning Corsair fighter on the deck of a British Aircraft Carrier operating in the Pacific. July 1945
US Navy planes destroy Japanese installations on Luzon. Circa January 1945
Bombing of the Ishigaki airfield in Okinawa by a British fleet carrier. June 1945
Fragmentation bombs dropped by B-25 Mitchell bombers over Japanese planes in Luzon. February 1945
Ditched Halifax bomber in the Atlantic, rescued by the crew of the merchant ship " Jamaica Producer", including the captain P.C. Piejus. Circa October 1945
