Germans Capitulate on All Fronts (Kennedy) – 2-3
Wild Crowds Greet News In City While Others Pray (Adams) – 4-5
Signed Surrender Pact between Allies and Germany (photos) – 4
St. Patrick’s Quiet as Thousands Pray – 5
Germany Surrenders: New Yorkers Massed Under Symbol of Liberty (page 1 photo) – 6
Summary of News of the War and German Surrender – 6
Hitler’s House Completely Ruined As Result of RAF Bomber Attack (Johnston) – 7
Gen. Eisenhower’s Role in the War Unique; Fulfilled His Purpose: To Crush the Foe (w/photo) – 7
Prague Says Foes Accept Surrender (MacCormac) – 8
Allies Continue Minor Operations (Hill) – 9
Leopold Rescued By 7th Army – 9
Oswiecim Killings Placed at 4,000,000 (by C.L. Sulzberger) – 9
Island-Wide Drive (by Warren Moscow and W.H. Lawrence) – 11-12
Allied Fliers Start Using Tarakan Field; Americans Push Into Hills West of Davao – 12
It’s ‘On to Tokyo’ Now and the Army Faces a Colossal Moving Job (map and chart) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 14-15
Editorials – 16-18
I. Germany Surrenders
II. The Death of the Myth
III. The High Command
IV. The Strategy Was Sound
V. And Now Japan
VI. On the Home Front
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