1945 Alabama State Fair

The 1945 Alabama State Fair, dubbed the Birmingham Victory Jubilee was a State Fair held in October 1945 at the Alabama State Fairgrounds.

In addition to livestock and educational exhibits, the fair included an enormous floral display, a carnival midway, a grandstand spectacle, and pyrotechnics on the theme of "The Bombing of Japan" created by the Thearle-Duffield Fireworks Company. The nightly Barnes-Carruthers State Fair Revue featured more than 150 performers, including Dick Clemons and his trained lions.

The Women's Civic Club exhibited a collection of trophies captured during World War II, including a Nazi flag that flew over Adolf Hitler's hideout at Berchtesgaden.