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VE DAY:
The European Theatre

May 8, 1945

 

Will never forget this day, the place, and what I was doing when I learned that the war was over. What a day! A day we have all been waiting for. I was on guard duty at the time when about 11:00 a.m. Paul Lubke came and gave me the good news. May 8th - a day which will go down in history. Germany surrenders!!

Now that the war is over here in Germany, we all wonder whether we will go home soon, stay awhile as occupational troops, or go to the Pacific where that war is still going on.

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