V-E Day: 67 Years Later, Share Your Veteran's Story
On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrated Victory in Europe Day.
Sixty-seven years ago today, the United States and Great Britain celebrated Victory in Europe Day, marking the end of World War II in Europe. To mark the day, "cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine," reads an article on history.com. "The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel Island of Sark--the German surrender was realized in a final …
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John David
11:07 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
My Dad commanded an 83 foot Coast Guard cutter for anti-submarine and rescue in WWII. His boat was one of 60 sent to support the Normandy invasion. At the time his older brother was in the Army Infantry and his younger brother in the Army Air Corps, both in the European theatre. By VE day, he and his crew and boat were returned to the US to patrol the New Jersey coast. After the war he was a full… more ›