May 12th 1945
Victory number edition

Celebrating V.E. Day - May 8th

This edition is shown here in full it is devoted entirely to the German surrender in Europe and shows pictorially the signing of the unconditional surrender in Italy.

Pages of pictures for each group of American, Russian, German and other foreign state leaders, also RAF and naval staff involved in the war.

' Signing of the Unconditional Capitulation -
Enemy Representatives at Allied HQ '

' General Morgan Signing the Document ' with other officers standing behind

' Her Majest The Queen ( Elizabeth) -
A Victory Year Portrait by Gerald Kelly RA '

' His Majesty King George VI -
A Victory Year Portrait by Gerald Kelly '

' Some of The Millions of German Prisoners '

The historic climax to Montgomery's victorious campaign

' The Germans at Montgomery's HQ on Luneberg Heath Asking for Terms of Surrender -
Reps. of Admiral Doenitz and Field Marshal Keitel salute Montgomery -
General Admiral Von Friedeburg C in C German Navy - General Keinzel Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Busch -
Rear Admiral Wagner '

' General Admiral Friedeburg Signing The Document of Unconditional Capitulation in Montgomery's Tent,
Which Liberated Holland and Denmark and Surrendered Over One Million German Armed Forces to the Allies Field Marshall Montgomery -
General Kienzl - Colonel Pollek - Rear Admiral Wagner Major Freide and Photographers Present at the Signing

Hamburg and the Surrender

' Hamburg Surrendering Unconditionally - A German Staff Car Under a White Flag Brings Field Marshal Busch's Representative '

' The Devastated City Apparently Deserted - A Massive Flak Tower Stands Among the Ruins ' .

' The Dockyard of the Great Bloehm and Voss Shipyard - British Troops Examining U-Boats '

' Another View of the Dockyard Area - ON the Slipways a Munber of Unfinished U-Boats '

' Air Photograph Showing the Fearful Devastation Suffered by Germany's First Port .

' At The British Front - A German Colonel Bearing a Letter from Field Marshal Busch Offering to Surrender '

' At the Bloehm and Voss Shipyard at Hamburg - Submarines on the Stocks '

' After Entering the City After Its Surrender - Men and Tanks of the Guards Armoured Division of the Second Army Awaiting Orders '

' Towering Cranes of Hamburg Docks, Three Recce Cars of the 11th Hussars,

Their Colonel Leading, Seen heading The British Entry into Germany's Port of Hamburg on the Day Following Berlins Surrender

' a drawing by Bryan de Grineau with hand written description on bottom of the sketch

' The Road to Victory in Europe '
a graph from the year 1939 to 1945
showing various events on the backdrop of dark clouds
"How we have passed from the shades to the broad day"

British Statesmen

' First Lord of the Admiralty - Mr A. V. Alexander '

' Secretary of State for War - Sir james Grigg '

' Secretary of Sate for Air - Sir Archibald Sinclair '

' Minister of War Transport - Lord Leathers '

' Minister of Supply - Sir Andrew Duncan '

' Minister for Food - Colonel J. J. Llewellin '

' Prime Minister 1937-40 - The Late Mister Neville Chamberlain '

' Former Chancellor of the Exchequer - The Late Sir Kingsley Wood '

' Ambassador in Washington - The Earl of Halifax '

' MInister of Aircraft Production - Sir Stafford Cripps '

' Lord Privy Seal - Viscount Beaverbrook '

' Minister of Information - Mr Brendan Bracken '

' The War Cabinet with HM King George VI - Mr Herbert Morrison - Lord Woolton - Sir John Anderson -
Clement R. Attlee - Winston Churchill - Mr Anthony Eden - Mr Oliver Lyttelton - Mr Ernest Bevin '

Naval Figures of Empire -:

' Late Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound

' Vice Admiral Sir Edward N. Syfret

' Sir John Tovey - Admiral of the Fleet

' Admiral Sir B. Fraser

' Rear Admiral Sir P. Vian of The Altmark Rescue '

' Admiral Sir J. Somerville - Commander H Force

' Admiral Sir H. Harwood - Commanded Forces Against Graf Spee ..'

' Vice Admiral Sir Henry R. Moore

' Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten

' Late Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay

' Vice Admiral Sir Harold Burrough

' Admiral Sir John Cunningham

' Adcmiral Sir Max Horton

' Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham ..'

' Blazing Wreck of the Raider " Graf Spee " Scuttling Herself off Montevideo

' Battle of Matapan - " Fiume " and Two Other Cruisers Sunk

' Last of the " Bismarck " Torpedoed by HMS Dorsetshire

Destruction of the Battleship " Scharnhorst " off North Cape

Military Figures -:

' Field Marshal Lord Wavell

' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke

' Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese

' General Sir Frederick Pile

' General Sir William Platt

' Lieutenant General Sir Alan Cunningham

' The Late Field Marshal Sir John Dill

' Field Marshal Sir H. Maitland Wilson

' General Sir Thomas Blamey of Australia

' Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery

' Lieutenant General Sir William Dobbie - Governor of Malta

' Lieutenant General F. A. Browning

' Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC

' Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey

' General H. d. G. Crerar of Canada

' After Victory ofr Alamein - The Advance of the Tanks '

' D-Day on the Normandy Beaches '

' Battle of Falaise Gap France '

' Storming of the Reich - crossing of the Rhine '

RAF Leaders -:

' Sir Charles Portal - Marshal of the Royal Air Force '

' Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas .. '

' Air Marshal Sir R. Hill

' Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris of Bomber Command ' .

' Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod

' Air Marshal Sir John Slessor

' Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory

' Air Marshal Sir K. Park

' Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder

' Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir C. Newall

' Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh P. Lloyd

' Air Commodore Finlay Crerar

' Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham

' Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding

' The Battle of Britain thirteen small photographs of German Aircraft shot down in the fields of SE England

' General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Supreme Commander of Victory '
by J. C. A. Redhead FRPS AIBP

' The British Prime Minister Mr Winston Churchill'
- The Organiser of Victory '"
painting by Professor Arthur Pan

' Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery'
British Commander of Victory
by Vandyk of London

' Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander '

Leaders of the USA -:

' General Mark Wayne Clark

' Lieutenant General J. Doolittle

' General H. H. Arnold

' Admiral H. K. Hewitt

' Fleet Admiral E. J. King

' General Omar Bradley

' Lieutenant General A. Patch

' Lieutenant General W. Bedell Smith

' General G. S. Marshall

' Lieutenant General L. K> Truscott '

' The Late President F. D. Roosevelt

' Lieutenant General Ira Eaker

' Lieutenant General L. H. Brereton

' Admiral H. R. Stark

' General Carl S. Spaatz

' General Jacob L. Devers

' Lieutenant General L. T. Gerow

' Major General N. F. Twining

' Lieutenant General W. H. Simpson

' General C. Hodges

' General Goerge Patton

Soviet Leaders -:

' Narshal Alexander Novikov

' General Eremenko ..'

' Marshal Rokossovsky

' Marshal Tolbukhin

' Marshal Malinovsky

' Marshal S. Timoshenko

' M. V. Molotov

' Marshal K. Voroshilov

' Marshal of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin

' Marshal Zhu8kov

' Marshal Koniev

' Marshal Meretskov

' General I. Bagramyan

' The Late General Chernyakhovsky

' Marshal A. M. Vassilevsky

' The Late General N. F. Vatutin

' Marshal N. Voronov

Empire and Foreign Leaders Who Played a Great Part in the War:

' Prime Minister of Canada - The Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King '

' HM Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands '

' HM King Haakon of Norway '

' Prime Minister of South Africa - Field Marshal the Right Hon. J. C. Smuts '

' General De Lattre De Tassigny

' General De Larminat

' General De Gaulle

' General Leclerc

' General Koenig - Hero of Bir Hakeim

' The Late General SIkorski of Poland

' Dr Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia .. '

' Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia

' Sir Firozkhan Noon of India

' The Right Hon. Peter Fraser - PM of New Zealand '

' General A. Papagos of Greece

' HM King Leopold of the Belgians '

' The Right Hon. John Curtin PM of Australia '

Protagonist of the Axis - German and Italian Leaders in The Great World War: .

' Reich Marshal Hermann Goring

' The Duke of Aosta

' Field Marshal Keitel

' Field Marshal W. Von Brauschitsch

' Field Marshal A Von Kesserlring

' Field Marshal G. Von Rundstedt

' Heinrich Himmler

' Marshal Graziani

' Admiral Raeder

' Field Marshal E. Rommel

' General Von Arnim

' Admiral Doenitz

' General Halder

' General Milch

' Field Marshal Von MAnstein

' Colonel General Heinz Guderian

' Adolf Hitler

The Fall of Munich

' An Endless Column of German Prisoners Marching Through the Battered City, the Cradle of Nazism

' The Ruined National Theatre, With German Pushing Their Bicycles, Coming in To Surrender ..'

' The Two Great Lions of the Sieges-Tor inthe Ludwigstrasse, Blasted Fromtheir Perches by Allied Bombing '

' The Entrance to the Burger-Brau Keller The Historic Cradle of Nazism and

The Scene of the Bomb Attempt on Hitlers Life - Allied Soldiers Marching Past ..'

' All That Remains of the Munich Braunhaus - Hitlers HQ

The Fall of Berlin:

' A Long Column of Soviet Tnaks Concentrating in a Berlin Street

' The Red Flag Flying From the Tower of the Reichstag -A symbol of Russian victory
A Photograph Taken at 3pm on 2 May at the Moment of the Surrender of The German Garrison '

' Columns of German Prisoners Marching Out Fromthe Centre of Berlin Between Ranks of Soviet Armour and Transport

' A Picture Taken in the Final Stages of the Battle for Berlin - Short Mortar Crews Seen in Action

' Wreckage in the Frankfurterstrasse .

' A Soviet Tank Borne Patrol at the Brandenburg Gate

' Victory in NW Germany and a View of liberated Rangoon

Field Marshal Montgomery's Victory Salvo, AA Guns Firing the Salvo of 21 Rounds
to Celebrate the German Surrender to the Twenty First Army Group -

Guns of the 168th and 169th Batteries of the 60th City of London Regt. '

' A Photograph of the Instrument of Surrender of All German Armed Forces in Holland,
In NW Germany inc All Islands and In Denmark ' shows signatures

' Scene at a Hotel at Wageningen near Arnhem - Lieutenant General Foulkes
Reading the Surrender Instructions to General Blaskowitz -

' Rangoon Burma - A General View Showing the Sule Pagoda

' Bremen Docks Cleared by the 52nd Lowland Division -
Showing a Scottish Soldier Looking at a Group of partially Completed U Boats '

Coventry Cathedral:

' The Ruins of the Cathedral - From a Drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone '

' A Drawing Showing Sir Giles Gilbert Scott 's Design for The Interior of the New Cathedral

A Book review by Sir John Squire
of "World war it's cause and cure" by Lional Curtis

' Four Panels by Giovanni Di Paolo Representing Incidents from the

Life of St John the Baptist at the National Gallery Exhibition

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