Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the summit of Everest, 1953[/QUOTE]


Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the defeated Nazi forces during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, on June 24, 1945

Gaunt and emaciated, but happy at their release from Japanese captivity, two Allied prisoners pack their meager belongings, after being freed near Yokohama, Japan, on September 11, 1945

The return of victorious Soviet soldiers at a railway station in Moscow in 1945

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, 1946.