Slate reads, "The war ends in Europe." Film shows American people celebrating the end of World War II in Europe following surrender by Germany. A crowd in New York City at Times Square celebrates Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day). People pray in a church. U.S. President Harry S Truman announces the German surrender.
Germany surrenders in Rheims, France during World War II. Nazi General Alfred Jodl arrives at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. General Jodl and others enter the building. U.S. General Walter B. Smith, Allied Chief of Staff and other officers at a desk. German General Jodl signs the surrender papers. General Smith also puts his signature on the papers. The surrender document with the signatures of the two Generals. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles. He holds two pens in a V sign.
German submarine U-234 following its surrencder and capture by the U.S. Forces in Portsmouth, New Hampshire following Germany's surrender in World War 2. The submarine crew members carry their gear onto a dock. German prisoners stand on the dock while American sailors guard them with rifles. A naval gun aboard a vessel. The crew members exit a U.S. Coast Guard cutter via a gangway. They walk along the dock at Portsmouth. German prisoners walk along the dock. The prisoners carry their gear as they come onto the dock.
German U-boats surrender to United States Forces in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Wrecked submarines and ships at a ship yard. Prefabricated submarines at Raymond shipyard in Bremen, Germany. German submarine U-858 underway towards Cape May, New Jersey after its crew surrendered to United States officers in the Atlantic Ocean. Men on the deck of the U boat while underway at sea. Men at a dock. Another U boat U-805 being brought to Portsmouth, New Hampshire after it surrendered to the Americans. Crew of the U boat before being taken to the Portsmouth Naval Prison. The captain of the German U boat.
German officers await air evacuation in European Theater during World War II. German officers await air evacuation to England. Germany officer boards U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain plane parked at an airfield. U.S. soldiers stand around as German officer boards C-47. Door of C-47 closes.
The end of World War 2 in Europe (but still going on in the Pacific). Horse cart on a street in Germany. Civilians tending cart with the dead bodies of German soldiers in the cart. Graves of the dead German soldiers. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta conference. Allied Navy warships underway at sea. Large room filled with architects and draftsmen at drafting tables with drawings. Construction site for a large dam and for an electric power station. Sweeping view of farm fields in the United States. A cow and her calf together. Farmers in the U.S. harvesting food. American children in a simple rural school house with a wood stove, listening to a teacher read at the front of the one room schoolhouse.
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