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

Volkssturm militias during the oath ceremony in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Two militia members are armed with Panzerschreck anti-tank grenade launchers, the leftmost with the MG-42 machine gun. November 1944.

Armed and "dangereous"

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. 