7 May 1945
Posted: Thursday, May 07, 2009 by Travis Cody inOn this day, 64 years ago, the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the German High Command, officially ending the war in Europe.
The war in the Pacific would go on for another four months until the surrender of Japan was announced on 14 August 1945. The official surrender was signed on 2 September 1945, aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Even the generations born long after seem to have been defined in part by that war.