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• BASTILLE DAY IN COURSEULLES, NORMANDY, 14 JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malindine E G (Capt)

  British and American troops join with local inhabitants of Courseulles in the ceremony at the War Memorial. Courseulles was the first town to be liberated by the Allies.

• GLIDER-BORNE PARATROOPERS EXERCISE, 22 APRIL 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malindine E G (Capt)

  British paratroopers sitting in the fuselage of an aircraft while awaiting their order to jump.

• NAZI PERSONALITIES

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Albert Speer 1905 - 1984): Speer with Doenitz and Jodl after his arrest by the British Army.

• NAZI PERSONALITIES

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Generaloberst Alfred Jodl (1890 - 1946): Jodl in British custody after his arrest at Flensburg.

• BERLIN: THE CAPTURE AND AFTERMATH OF WAR 1945-1947

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  British and Russian soldiers on the balcony of the Chancellery, the spot from which Hitler made many of his speeches.

• BERLIN: THE CAPTURE AND AFTERMATH OF WAR 1945-1947

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  The burnt-out Reichstag building forming a backdrop for a presentation of medals by Field Marshal Montgomery to Soviet officers.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  5.5-inch guns of 85 Battery, 11th Medium Regiment, firing at night near Xanten during the assault on the Rhine, 24 March 1945.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: GERMANY: PERSONALITIES

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Grossadmiral Karl Doenitz in the custody of the British Army after his arrest. As Hitler's chosen successor from 30 April 1945, he negotiated the capitulation of German Forces in the west.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Dutch nurses wave at passing British vehicles during the liberation of Eindhoven, 19 September 1944.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Cheering Dutch civilians gather around a Sherman OP tank of 'C' Troop, 55th Field Regiment RA, Guards Armoured Division, as Eindhoven is liberated, 19 September 1944. Sitting on the front of the tank is Sgt Herbert Frederick Jones.