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I believe I will roll down to the VFW and raise a Bourbon "To our fallen comrades!"
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I spent the day helping my wife with our catering business.
V-E Day Anniversary
Jonn Lilyea | May 8, 2015
Victory in Europe
It was 70 years ago today that the Nazi government of Germany capitulated to the Allies in Berlin, it was also US president Harry Truman’s 61st birthday. He became president on April 12th when President Franklin Roosevelt died just a few weeks before Adolph Hitler committed suicide on April 30th. The surrender document had been signed on May 7th in Reims, France, and again in Berlin on May 8th (largely for the benefit of the Soviets, but it was May 9th in Moscow when it was signed, so that’s their traditional V-E day) by the German government headed by Hitler’s sole surviving successor, Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz.
Fighting continued in the East for weeks after the surrender, though, as German soldiers tried to get to the American and British zones of occupation instead of surrendering to the Red Army. Small German guerrilla units called Werewolf formed to resist the end of the war existed through the 1940s, mostly made up of Hitler Youth adherents who had known nothing but Naziism. The last German troops to surrender in the West, though, were on the Channel Island of Minquiers which had been bypassed during the war. The troops there surrendered to French fishermen on May 23rd.
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V-E Day Anniversary
Jonn Lilyea | May 8, 2015
Victory in Europe
It was 70 years ago today that the Nazi government of Germany capitulated to the Allies in Berlin, it was also US president Harry Truman’s 61st birthday. He became president on April 12th when President Franklin Roosevelt died just a few weeks before Adolph Hitler committed suicide on April 30th. The surrender document had been signed on May 7th in Reims, France, and again in Berlin on May 8th (largely for the benefit of the Soviets, but it was May 9th in Moscow when it was signed, so that’s their traditional V-E day) by the German government headed by Hitler’s sole surviving successor, Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz.
Fighting continued in the East for weeks after the surrender, though, as German soldiers tried to get to the American and British zones of occupation instead of surrendering to the Red Army. Small German guerrilla units called Werewolf formed to resist the end of the war existed through the 1940s, mostly made up of Hitler Youth adherents who had known nothing but Naziism. The last German troops to surrender in the West, though, were on the Channel Island of Minquiers which had been bypassed during the war. The troops there surrendered to French fishermen on May 23rd.
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Well, GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad, I just found out that it is also Military Spouses' Day! I had planned on taking my wife to dinner anyway and toasting her as my favorite military spouse. Now, we'll have to charge our glasses again, and we'll toast my now deceased uncle, Sergeant George Brooks Curlee. He served with the 70th Infantry Division "Trailblazers" during World War II. The 70th spearheaded the Seventh United States Army's drive into Germany, south of Saarbrücken.
This photo of my uncle was taken on the Rhine River near the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen not long after its capture in March 1945.
This photo of my uncle was taken on the Rhine River near the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen not long after its capture in March 1945.
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SPC Nancy Greene
Thanks for your post. Awesome picture of your Uncle and for reminding me to celebrate the day and honor the brave men who entered WWII eagerly to fight for European Freedom. My Uncle’s squadron was responsible for ‘taking out’ Kamamoto’s battleship and winning the Battle at Midway. There is a Destroyer Escort named in honor of my Uncle Ensign Eugene A GREENE. So I will definitely celebrate the day!
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