Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Remembering 75 years since Victory in Europe

Otago Daily Times, 8 May 1945 [courtesy Papers Past]

Crowd at the official V.E. Day celebrations, Lambton Quay, Wellington [Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

Crowd at the official V.E. Day celebrations, Lambton Quay, Wellington [Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

Women celebrating Victory in Europe, Lambton Quay, Wellington [Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

Winston Churchill waves to London crowds on V.E. Day [public domain via Wikimedia Commons]

Woman on Lambton Quay, with a Union Jack in her hair [Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]