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More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory-Day march through London, England, on June 8, 1946. The huge parade, which covered more...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory-Day march through London, England, on June 8, 1946. The huge parade, which covered more...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory-Day march through London, England, on June 8, 1946. The huge parade, which covered more...

A magnificent fireworks display at Westminster, London, made a glorious ending to the victory celebrations held in the British capital. Immediately pr...

A view looking up The Mall, London, during the Victory-Day parade of the Allied services on June 8, 1946. (AP Photo)

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory-Day march through London, England, on June 8, 1946. The huge parade, which covered more...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory-Day march through London, England, on June 8, 1946. The huge parade, which covered more...

A magnificent fireworks display at Westminster, London, made a glorious ending to the victory celebrations held in the British capital. Immediately pr...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade, which covered more than 20 miles, i...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade which covered more than 20 miles, in...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the great Victory Day parade through London, on June 8. The contingent of the Union of South Africa on the...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade which covered more than 20 miles, in...

More than 21,000 men and women, comprising two columns, one mechanized and the other on foot, took part in a giant, combined parade of British and All...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day parade through London on June 8. The huge parade, which covered more than 20 miles,...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade included British and Allied forces,...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade, which covered more than 20 miles, i...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London, on June 8. The huge parade, which covered more than 20 miles,...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the great Victory Day parade through London on June 8. Historic picture made from the Victoria memorial ou...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade, which covered more than 20 miles, i...

More than 21,000 men and women took part in the giant Victory Day march through London on June 8. The huge parade, which covered more than 20 miles, i...

Londoners has a pre-view of the victory illuminations when many of London's landmark's were flood-lit during Victory Day rehearsals. The Tower of Lond...

Londoners had a pre-view of the victory illumination when many of London's landmark's were flood-lit during Victory Day rehearsals. Horse Guards Parad...

Londoners had a pre-view of the Victory Day illuminations when many of the City's Landmarks were flood-lit during Victory Day rehearsals. Westminster...

A celebrity studded, dressed-up audience turned out for the opening of "Annie get your gun" at the Imperial Theatre on May 16. Long gowns, and short f...

A celebrity-studded, dressed-up audience turned out for the opening of "Anne Get Your Gun" at the Imperial Theatre on May 16. Long gowns, and short fu...

General view of ceremonies aboard the Army hospital ship Aleda E. Lutz at Pier 88, New York City on April 11, 1946 as the former 13,390-ton French lin...

Mrs. Clementine Churchill, center, wife of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, accompanied by her son, Randolph Churchill right, and daughter, Mrs. Sar...

Winston Churchill and his wife reach down to pet "Fala", the Roosevelt Scottie, during the former British prime minister's visit to Hyde Park, New Yor...

Winston Churchill, his cane and ever-present cigar in one hand, smiles as he gives the "V" for "Victory" sign with the other on his arrival in New Yor...

Chorus of patients of the Philadelphia U.S. naval hospital rehearsing for their two-act musical comedy, "Broad Street Brevities," which was given its...

Arriving at the Union Station in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1946, Mr. Winston Churchill and Mrs. Clementine Churchill, accompanied by their daughte...

President Harry Truman talks with members of the United Jewish Appeal at the White House in Washington on Feb. 25, 1946 regarding their campaign to ra...

President Harry Truman (center) talks with Herbert H. Lehman (left), chief of NURRA, and Henry Morgenthau Jr. (right) former secretary of the Treasury...

President Harry Truman (left), welcomes Gen. Francisco Urquizo (center), Mexico's Secretary of National Defense, as he visits the Executive Office on...

Sarah Gibson Blanding of Cornell University, shown here on Feb. 20, 1946, became the first woman president of Vassar College after her election by th...

President Harry Truman signs an employment and production bill which Congress passed as a compromise for his so-called "full employment" legislation....

President Harry Truman signs an employment and production bill which Congress passed as a compromise for his so-called "full employment" legislation....

President Harry S. Truman holds up handful of pens he used to sign an employment and production bill which Congress passed as a compromise for his so-...

Bill Rigney, candidate for the shortstop post on the New York Giants, polishes his glasses before taking part in practice at Miami, Florida on Feb. 19...

Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, who succeeds W. Averell Harriman as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, sits in an easy chair in his home at Washington, D.C., on...

Four U.S. prelates wait in the apostolic chancery in Rome on Feb. 18, 1946 for receipt of their formal notices of elevation to the Sacred College of C...

President Harry Truman points to the poster (correct) stamp commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther, which was presented to...

From left to Right, Will Wedge, New York Sun and Associated Press correspondent, Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yank and Maj. General Joseph C. McHaffey...

Miss Margaret Truman dances at the French embassy in Washington on Feb. 16, 1946 with her escort, Lt. Col. James Batte, of Concord, North Carolina. Mi...

S/Sgt. Leonard Simon of Poughkeepsie, New York, dances with Margaret Truman at the French Embassy in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 16, 1946. Ambassador...

Seated at a French Embassy party in Washington on Feb. 16, 1946 given by Ambassador and Madame Henri Bonnet in honor of Miss Margaret Truman (third fr...

The expressive face of federal mediator James F. Dewey while in Detroit to mediate the General Motors-United Auto Workers Union negotiations on Feb. 1...

Federal mediator James F. Dewey is shown while he was in Detroit to mediate the General Motors-United Auto Workers Union negotiations on Feb. 13, 1946...

Archbishop Francis J. Spellman sits in plane from Shannon, Ireland, to Paris on Feb. 13, 1946. (AP Photo/John Rooney)

British and American warships at anchor in the Wangpoo River, Shanghai, on Feb. 11, 1946. The American light cruiser U.S.S. Nashville is nearest the c...