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• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944: PERSONALITIES

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, during a five day tour of the Normandy fighting front.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Commanding Officers of 21st Army Group: General Omar N Bradley GOC US 1st Army.

• THE LIBERATION OF MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, GERMANY, MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Emaciated, inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: US Navy official photographer

  GI Brides: The wartime wedding of Carl Mazzola, twenty year old boatswain's mate, second class, USNR from Detroit, Michigan, United States, to Julie Pope from Fulham, London, at a church in Kensington, London.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  American forces leaving Britain: Air Transport Command speeds United States Eighth Army Air Force on its way to Japan via the United States. The happy United States airmen are seen in the back of a truck at an ATC Base in Wales.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  American military police with a British policeman during the Second World War.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  United States troops arrive in England: members of the US Signal Corps enjoy coffee and doughnuts served by the Red Cross on a train which is carrying them to their base after their arrival in Britain.

• THE FREE FRENCH DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A meeting of the French Committee of National Liberation; seated around the table are M Henri Bonnet, Minister of Information; M Francois Menthen, Minister of Justice; M Dictolin, Minister of Production; General Georges; General Henri Giraud; M Rene...

• THE FREE FRENCH DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  General de Gaulle in uniform at his desk.

• OPERATION 'MARKET GARDEN' (THE BATTLE FOR ARNHEM): 17 - 25 SEPTEMBER 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Personalities: Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey KCB DSO MC Commander of the 2nd British Army, arrives at the Headquarters of an airborne unit fighting in Holland. His intelligence staff had reported mounting German activity in central Holland,...

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Poznak Murray (US Army Signal Corps photographer)

  Happy crowds of soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians in front of the American Red Cross Rainbow Corner after the announcement of the surrender.

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Massecar T G

  Two British sailors and their girlfriends wading in the fountains in Trafalgar Square on VE Day.

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Poznak Murray

  A mass of civilians and servicemen crowding around Piccadilly Circus, London.

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Crowds gather in Trafalgar Square, London.

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nero Nunzio (US Army Signal Corps photographer)

  Soldiers and girls dancing in a street near Berkeley Square.

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Showers of paper cascade from windows of a building in Davies Street, onto soldiers and civilians below.

• VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON, ENGLAND, 8 MAY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  Men and women dance the conga around a bonfire in East Acton, London during the evening of VE Day.

• THE ARDENNES OFFENSIVE 16 DECEMBER 1944 - 28 JANUARY 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Personalities: An informal portrait of Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Commander of 12th Army Group and temporarily appointed commander of the armies on the southern flank of the German salient.

• FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) 1914

  Franklin D Roosevelt, Assistant Naval Secretary, stands with naval officers during the First World War.

• THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE 1939-1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Rocket Weapons and the Atomic Bomb: The B-29 'Enola Gay' which dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and her pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.