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May 8 Marks First Day Anniversary of V-E Victory
May 8 1945 marked the first day anniversary of V E Day as President Truman announced Germany’s unconditional surrender and the Allied victory. The end of Nazi rule followed years of battles from Stalingrad to Normandy with Allied forces advancing across Europe while the Pacific war continued.
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Merica
Trajan
Europe
Great Britain
Prime Minster Churchill
London
Gen. de Gaulle
Paris
Mason
Marshal Julin
Berlin
United Nations
America
Okinawa
Pacific
Axis
Romend
Marshal Foch
Pompiegne Forest
Rhine
Ver
Reichitsf
Reich
Germany
Hitler
Wehrmacht
Kaiser
Ehrmacht
Poland
Little Red School
Reims
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gustav Jodl
Walter Bedell Smith
Eisenhower
U. S
Moscow
Soviet Union
Caucasus
Stalingrad
North Africa
el Alamein
Bizerte
Corsica
Italy
Rome
Normandy
Low Countries
Himmler
Doenitz