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. 

At the "height" of celebration

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

American soldiers and English girls parade the United States' flag, the Stars and Stripes, past the famous Criterion restaurant in London's Piccadilly Circus, after hearing the news of the Japanese offer of  surrender; 10 August, 1945.