- Budd Knapp
- Narrator
- Fred Ashworth
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 3rd from Left with USN Dress Cap, Plus 2nd Close-up
- Kermit Beahan
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 8th from Left, Plus 4th Close-up
- Johannes Blaskowitz
- Self - Surrenders to Foulkes
- John Bracken
- Self - Votes, Concedes Election
- George R. Caron
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 5th from Left with GI Work Cap
- M.J. Coldwell
- Self - Votes, Concedes Election
- H.D.G. Crerar
- Self - with Seaforth Highlander Officer
- Karl Dönitz
- Self - Surrenders
- Anthony Eden
- Self - at the UN, Pats Stettinius on Back
- Thomas Farrell
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 1st from Left, Plus 1st Close-up
- Thomas Ferebee
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 4th from Left
- Charles Foulkes
- Self - Accepts German Surrender at Wageningen
- Joseph Goebbels
- Self - Pats Boy Soldier Hübner on Shoulder
- Hermann Göring
- Self - Removes Insignia After Capture
- Adolf Hitler
- Self - with Senior Officers
- Bert Hoffmeister
- Self - with Family, with Mackenzie King
- C.D. Howe
- Self - with Mackenzie King
- Wilhelm Hübner
- Self - Boy Soldier, Iron Cross, Handshake with Goebbels
- Alfred Jodl
- Self - Walks Behind Dönitz
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Self - Addresses UN, Wins Election
- Hans Kinzel
- Self - Surrenders to Monty
- George Kitching
- Self (with Foulkes, on his left)
- Josef Kramer
- Self - Commandant of Belsen, After Capture
- Captain MacCabau
- Self - Goes Toward Blaskowitz as Car Arrives
- C.J. Mackenzie
- Self - National Research Council, at a Meeting
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Self - at the UN with Eden and Stettinius
- Bernard L. Montgomery
- Self - Accepts German surrender on Luneburg Heath
- Benito Mussolini
- Self - Corpse in Milan
- William Parsons
- Self - A-Bomb Miission: 2nd from Left
- Clara Petacci
- Self - Corpse in Milan
- Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
- Self (with Foulkes, to his right)
- Paul Reichelt
- Self (with Blaskowitz, on his left)
- Guy Simonds
- Misidentification (of George Kitching)
- Edward R. Stettinius Jr.
- Self - at the UN, Greets Soviets
- Charles W. Sweeney
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 7th from Left with Cigar, Plus 3rd Close-up
- Paul Tibbets
- Self - A-Bomb Mission: 6th from Left with Pipe
- Hans Georg von Friedeburg
- Self - Surrenders with Kinzel to Monty, Then with Dönitz
- Gerhard Wagner
- Self - with Friedeburg and Kinzel
