The scene in Times Square on V-E Day in 1945.
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A crowd at a bar raises their drinks to V-E Day.
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The Queen Mary ship sails past the New York skyline on her way to the pier to bring home more than 14,000 men from Europe.
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New York City celebrates V-E Day.
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Pfc. Clarence K. Ayers of Evansville, Ind., reads the news of V-E Day as newly arrived German prisoners stand of a New York City pier.
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