Asia • Iwo Jima
| Joe Rosenthal takes the photograph of the Flag raising on Iwo Jima showing six marines putting up a large flag on Mount Suribachi. It quickly becomes one of the iconic American war photographs.
A feature film Flags of Our Fathers (2006) , directed by Clint Eastwood, retells the story. (23 February 1945) [Read about] |
Asia • Japan
| Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. The tail gunner of the Enola Gay, Sgt. George R. Caron, took a roll of film of the detonation. (6 August 1945) [Read about] |
Asia • Japan
| Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in Japan. (9 August 1945) |
Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Jindrich Styrsky and Jindrich Heisler publish Na jehlach techto dni [On the Needles of these Days]. |
Europe • Germany
| Yevgeny Khaldei photographs the placing of a Soviet flag on the Reichstag in Berlin showing that the European phase of the Second World War is nearly over. (2 May 1945) [Read about]
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North America • USA
| Alexey Brodovitch publishes Ballet (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945). |
North America • USA
| André Kertész publishes Day of Paris. |
North America • USA
| Weegee (Arthur Fellig) publishes Naked City.
Naked City (A Da Capo Paperback)
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| North America • USA | LIFE in the USA runs the Holocaust photographs taken at Buchenwald in April 1945 by Lee Miller with the statement "Dead men will have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them." (7 May 1945) |
North America • USA
| V-J Day ended the hostilities of the Second World War and was a time of celebrations for the Allies. The photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt catches the atmosphere of the occasion when anybody could kiss anybody and get away with it. The photograph is fascinating because of the numbers of people who claimed to be the sailor or the nurse involved to learn more about it go to http://time.com/3517476/v-j-day-1945-a-nation-lets-loose/ (14 August 1945) [Read about] |
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