A New Zealand sailor raises his bowler hat in the sunshine as he celebrates Victory over Japan with several smiling American soldiers and English women close to the Strand Palace Hotel, near the Waterloo Bridge in London, England; 10 August, 1945. 

A joint celebration

Two young German women wander among the ruins of bombed-out houses on Bahnhofstrasse, near the railroad station in Bonn, Germany; March 1945.

Devastated neighborhood

American sergeant Franklin G. Talley, assisted by an airman of the Royal Air Force (RAF), holds up a copy of the Evening News while seated on traffic lights in London’s Oxford Circus on 10 August 1945. 