On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...
FILE - Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early hours of May 18, 1945, just before he embarked for the United States ...
Reims, France, boasts the best of European travel condensed into a single little city. It's the home of crowned kings, Christian faith, Gothic majesty and luminescent wine. It's also where a sad, ...
On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the ...
“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...
A World War II Veteran who claimed he was the first Allied soldier to receive a message that the Nazis had surrendered vowed to keep the historical document in his family despite intense interest from ...
On May 8, 1945, following the death of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, World War II finally came to an end with Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Millions of people rushed to the ...
HAD TIES TO RIGHT WING EXTREMIST GROUPS. TODAY IS VE DAY VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY. IT IS THE DAY THE CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE ENDED IN WORLD WAR TWO, GERMANY UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDERED TO THE ALLIED POWERS ON ...
LONDON — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday's 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day ...