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Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies on this day 79 years ago...
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:21 am
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:21 am
Happy VE-Day! At 2:45 AM on the morning of May 7, 1945, Chief of the OKW, General Alfred Jodl, signed the instrument of surrender of the Wehrmacht at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims, France. The surrender would officially go into effect at midnight on May 8, however a general cease-fire was declared all across the line to avoid what happened on November 11, 1918 with the armistice that ended World War I.
Winston Churchill would announce the news of the German surrender over the radio on the morning of May 8, explaining to the British people and the rest of the world that the war in Europe had finally come to an end after almost six years of bloody fighting the likes of which the planet had never seen before.
The reaction across the world was unrestrained ecstasy as millions of people celebrated the end of hostilities.
Winston Churchill would announce the news of the German surrender over the radio on the morning of May 8, explaining to the British people and the rest of the world that the war in Europe had finally come to an end after almost six years of bloody fighting the likes of which the planet had never seen before.
The reaction across the world was unrestrained ecstasy as millions of people celebrated the end of hostilities.
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Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:25 am to RollTide1987
Should have made the commies surrender while we were in domination mode.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:25 am to RollTide1987
And they are back taking over College Campuses
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:26 am to RollTide1987
We're headed back to Hawaii in a few weeks and plan to spend Memorial Day at Pearl Harbor. Looking forward to a new feeling in a familiar location.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:27 am to RollTide1987
Imagine if Hitler didn’t start a war on two fronts before completely conquering Europe/England.
Things would have gone very differently.
Things would have gone very differently.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
Couldn't you have held onto this until next year and made it an even 80. Everyone would have been much happier. Now we all have this foreboding feeling of something being undone.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
9 months later started the baby boom.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:30 am to Honest Tune
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Should have made the commies surrender while we were in domination mode.
The Communists were also in domination mode
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:34 am to RollTide1987
Great pictures.
Especially the second one with Guinness is good for you. I suspect that plenty of alcohol was consumed that day.
Especially the second one with Guinness is good for you. I suspect that plenty of alcohol was consumed that day.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:36 am to RollTide1987
Hooray, they Jews won. 
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:38 am to RollTide1987
I have a photograph of my grandfather in his uniform holding a newspaper with the headline of Germany’s surrender the next day. He’s somewhere in Europe.
Maybe I should see if that Rainbolt guy could find the exact location for me.
Maybe I should see if that Rainbolt guy could find the exact location for me.
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:38 am to Honest Tune
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Should have made the commies surrender while we were in domination mode.
While I hate the communists and generally agree with your post a lot of us probably wouldn’t be here today had we gone to war with the soviets.
The battles and bloodshed from a war between the soviets and US/UK would’ve been on an even larger scale than what we saw bw the Germans/Soviets. Both my grandfathers were a year or two young for WW2 but they would’ve been in the meat grinder had we gone to war with the commie reds.
It wouldn’t of been a sure victory and probably a long drawn out bloody stalemate unless we pulled out the nukes
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:39 am to RollTide1987
I think we fought the wrong ones
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:42 am to Spaceman Spiff
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I think we fought the wrong ones
This board is always good for some high level retardation
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:51 am to Mstate
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Both my grandfathers were a year or two young for WW2 but they would’ve been in the meat grinder had we gone to war with the commie reds.
Both mine were in WW2, and I’m pretty sure they were ready to come home and squirt out kids once that war was over. They wanted nothing to do with more fighting. Can’t blame em.
This post was edited on 5/8/24 at 9:55 am
Posted on 5/8/24 at 9:56 am to RollTide1987
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Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:04 am to RollTide1987
Outstanding victory for the soviets.
Pretty pathetic that the US tries to act like they defeated the nazis…it was the ussr that put in 90% of the work
Pretty pathetic that the US tries to act like they defeated the nazis…it was the ussr that put in 90% of the work
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:16 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:19 am to Boodis Man
quote:USSR was just willing to send wave after wave of infantry to the meat grinder. They had no air force to speak of. It was the US and Britain that wiped out the Luftwaffe and gave the allies air superiority to be able to march to Berlin
Pretty pathetic that the US tries to act like they defeated the nazis…it was the ussr that put in 90% of the work
Posted on 5/8/24 at 10:20 am to Boodis Man
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Pretty pathetic that the US tries to act like they defeated the nazis…it was the ussr that put in 90% of the work
Have an upvote. Stalin was begging the other Allied powers to attack from the west. The US dragged their arse for two years while the ussr suffered major casualties all with the "threat" of Japan attacking from the East.
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