Halley Docherty May 20, 2014

Second world war in Google Street View

Germans march through Paris, London weathers the blitz and Hiroshima faces devastation as our Street View specialist Halley Docherty takes us back to the second world war

WWI in Street View: German soldiers parade down the Champs-Elysée, 1940. — German soldiers parade down the Champs-Elysées in Paris, June 1940. All images: Halley Docherty for the Guardian Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: German soldiers parade from the Arc de Triomphe — Mounted German soldiers parade from the Arc de Triomphe onto Avenue Foch Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: the BC regiment in Canada — A boy reaches out to his father as Canada's British Columbia Regiment marches through New Westminster, BC, on 1 October 1940 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: London's Balham station civilian air raid shelter partially destroyed — On 14 October 1940, during the London blitz, a bomb partially destroyed the Balham station civilian air raid shelter Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: London blitz Balham bombing — Cranes remove a bus from the Balham bomb crater, October 1940 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: Warsaw ghetto — The bridge connecting two sections of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, pictured in the first half of 1942, a year before the Warsaw uprising Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: A boy salutes troops in San Antonio, Texas, 1942 — A boy salutes US troops at a parade in San Antonio, Texas, on 1 July 1942 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: Crowd watching the D-Day news line zipper at Times Square 1944 — Crowds watch the D-Day newsline ticker at Times Square, New York City, on 6 June 1944 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWI in Street View: The liberation of Paris — Jubliant crowds line the Champs-Elysées after the liberation of Paris in August 1944 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: poster portrait of Stalin — A German civilian gazes at a poster of Soviet leader Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden, Berlin, on 3 June 1945 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWII in Street View: Russian soldiers at the Brandenburg Gate, 1945 — Russian soldiers rally at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 Photograph: Halley Docherty

WWI in Street View: Hiroshima, Japan 1945 — A man surveys the wreckage left by the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. The ruins of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (pictured), one of the few buildings to remain standing, are now part of the Peace Memorial Park

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