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Thanksgiving service at Shrine War Memorial, Melbourne. On Thursday, August 16, 1945, more than 10.000 people gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, to take part in the Thanksgiving service held to mark the end of the Pacific War. From left: Captain Chih Kuang Wang, Naval Attache Legation of the Republic of China; Commander D.J. Kommer, Chief of Shipping and Navigation Department, Royal ...

Een portretfoto van Dwight Donald Eisenhower. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog was hij de Opperbevelhebber van de Geallieerde Strijdkrachten. van 20 januari 1953 - 20 januari 1961 was hij de 34e president van de Verenigde Staten. Supreme Allied Commander, at his headquarters in the European theather of operations. He wears the five-star cluster of the newly-created rank of General of the Army.

Unconditional surrender of Germany ratified in Berlin. Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeburg, Commander in Chief of the German Fleet, signs May 9, 1945, in Berlin a copy of the ratification of the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies originally signed at Reims, France, May 7, 1945. The signing of the ratified copies of the instrument of surrender took place at the Soviet Army Headquarters in ...

Luxembourg signs agreement with allied civil affairs division. Pierre Dupong, Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, signs an agreement in London between his government and the Allied Civil Affairs Division (G-5) of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. Officials participating in the ceremony are, left to right front row: Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, Deputy Chief of Staff, ...

Unconditional surrender of Germany ratified in Berlin. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander in Chief Allied Expeditionay Force, signs on behalf of the Allied High Command in Berlin May 9, 1945, a copy of the ratification of the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies originally signed at Reims, France, May 7, 1945. The instrument of ratification was signed ...

French officials visit former SHAEF War Room. Sergeant Leonard A. Hyman (left) points out the keys to the former SHAEF War Room, where the Germans signed the unconditional surrender terms, to visiting French officials, and Captain Yvonne A. Baillod of Tampa, Florida, French liaison officer with the Assembly Area Command Headquarters at Reims.The keys to the War Room were presented to the Mayor of Reims ...

Unconditional surrender of germany ratified in Berlin. Marshal Goergi K. Zhukov, Deputy Commancer in Chief of all Soviet Forces, signs on behalf of the Soviet Union, at the Soviet Army Headquarters in the great hall of the German Military Academy in Berlin May, 1945, a copy of the instrument of ratification of the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies originally signed at Reims, France May ...