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068703:Essoldo cinema Westgate Road/Thornton Street Newcastle upon Tyne Unknown 1945
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Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945
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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin.
- Photo by Lt. Moore (US Army), 8 May 1945. Public Domain image c/o Wikipedia.
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Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945: Representatives of the Empire of Japan on board USS Missouri (BB-63) during the surrender ceremonies.
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Effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. View from the top of the Red Cross Hospital looking northwest. Frame buildings recently erected. 1945
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The Nagasaki Prefecture Report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as "like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing"
- "Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb …
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Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing on August 9, 1945. Taken from the north west.
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068703:Essoldo cinema Westgate Road/Thornton Street Newcastle upon Tyne Unknown 1945
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Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945
- "Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945" Photo from Imperial War Museums, …
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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht at the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin.
- Photo by Lt. Moore (US Army), 8 May 1945. Public Domain image c/o Wikipedia.
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Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945: Representatives of the Empire of Japan on board USS Missouri (BB-63) during the surrender ceremonies.
- Photo 2 September 1945 on the USS Missouri.
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Effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. View from the top of the Red Cross Hospital looking northwest. Frame buildings recently erected. 1945
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The Nagasaki Prefecture Report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as "like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing"
- "Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb …
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Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing on August 9, 1945. Taken from the north west.
- Photo by Charles Levy, from the National Archives and Records Administration,. now Public Domain c/o Wikimedia Commons.
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