Guess Biden was too busy with something else to make note of the day.
https://archive.org/details/wwii-radio-archive-torrent/1945/1945-05-08+BBC+Winston+Churchill+-+Germany‘s+Unconditional+Surrender.mp3
Prime Minister Churchill announces German Surrender.
A stupendous day for Europe and the world.
Take two: https://archive.org/details/wwii-radio-archive-torrent/1945/1945-05-08+BBC+Winston+Churchill+-+Germany‘s+Unconditional+Surrender.mp3
You’ll need to copy / paste. The URL is too long for proper linking. Is there a solution for this?
Sorry
My mother thought that Truman made May 8th V-E Day because it was his birthday (instead of having May 7th as V-E Day).
Would seem France and many other nations should celebrate it also.
VE Day must be bittersweet for Eastern Europe because it put them under the rule of Communust despots.
The West celebrates nothing anymore.
At least the Russians still make a big deal out of it.
What gets me is the fact that we do not celebrate Aug 15th when the Japs ordered a cease fire and truly ended WW2, But when that happened at that time in 1945 and following years we did, It was stopped because of racial reasons.
I find it hard to get my patriotic juices going about D-Day as I used to. WW2 marked, not just Churchill Britain’s finest hour, but America’s too.
But, since the stealing of the election and ongoing coup of America, communism having taken us by the throat, our former victory we enjoyed over Hitler and Tojo, now seems tarnished.
How many Americans have suffered, died, and with terrible war wounds, fighting Communism on foreign fields only to have it taken over right here at home?
How is it we were so brave on foreign fields (America home of the brave), yet have allowed it to take us over here at home?
Celebrate! (thx :)
FTA: About 1 million Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended, but were stopped by the Russians and taken captive. The Russians took approximately 2 million prisoners in the period just before and after the German surrender.
The Russians killed almost all by working them to death and just plain murder. Very few ever got back to Germany.
How man U.S. service members died needlessly over the next three months, because of the terrible agreement that FDR in Churchill main.
The war in Asia could have been over the next day If FDR in Churchill didn’t give the Soviet Union 3 months to inveigh Japan.
The United States spent the next 3 months conventionally bombing Japan into rubble. But it didn’t need to be that way. FDR and Churchill have a lot of blood on their hands.
Seventy Six years ago, indeed.
Thanks again, dad.