[French troops and Resistance fighters flushing the last of Germans out of the area between the Invalides and the Palais Bourbon, Paris]

[Celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Man and boy on his shoulders watching the parade celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Soldiers and civilians on a tank in the parade celebrating the liberation of the city, Paris]

[Meeting of the Unión Nacional Española, an organization of anti-fascist Spaniards had helped to liberate France, Toulouse, France]

[Spanish anti-fascist exiled in France who had been a member of the abortive mission that had crossed the Pyrenees on foot in October 1944 to liberate several Spanish villages, near Toulouse, France]

[Archbishop Francis Spellman saying Mass for American Roman Catholic troops, on the French-German border, near Aachen, Germany]

[German soldiers captured by American forces during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[Two German soldiers captured by American forces during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[Soldier on snowy hillside during the Battle of the Bulge, south of Bastogne, Belgium]

[American paratroopers lying on a field, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farmers fleeing from their burning house, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farm family seeking refuge from the fighting, near Wesel, Germany]

[Two American paratroopers with wounded paratrooper, who probably crash-landed in a glider, near Wesel, Germany]

[Man taking a radio to the Tiergarten to sell on the black market, Berlin]

[Group of the women (Trümmerfrauen) engaged in clearing away the rubble in the ruined city, Berlin]

[Russian soldiers being photographed, Berlin]

[Boy playing amid the ruins in the attic of his family's house, Amsterdam]

[Woman gathering a bundle of hay on a collective farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Girl sitting on wooden fence on a collective farm, Ukraine]

[The caretaker of the old church, Mtskheta, Georgian Soviet Republic]

[Children with instructor in a museum, Moscow]

[The committee to approve fashions suitable for sale to Soviet women, Moscow]

[Portrait photographer setting up on the streets of Stalingrad]