A blindfolded Waffen SS officer being led though the British lines at the town of Tarvisio in north-eastern Italy, near the Austrian border,  to discuss the terms of surrender; 7 May 1945. 


Willing to surrender

Cheerful British troops crowd the deck of a Royal Navy destroyer at Dover, England, after evacuation from Dunkirk, France; May 1940. 


Home safely

An RAF officer inspects the hole left by a 22,000-lb deep-penetration 'Grand Slam' bomb which pierced the reinforced concrete roof of the German submarine pens at Farge, north of Bremen, Germany. this was the result of a daylight raid mounted by 18 Avro Lancasters of No. 617 Squadron RAF on 27 March 1945, in which two direct hits by 'Grand Slams' caused much of the partially-completed roof to collapse.
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