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Historic NY

(39,979 posts) Fri May 8, 2015, 03:42 PM May 2015

70th anniversary of VE Day looking back in pictures..

fortunate for some and not so much for the others in the Pacific where the war slogged on.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/war-over-remembering-ve-day-70-years-later-n355841

CSPAN had live celebrations at the WWII Memorials and a war bird fly over.

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70th anniversary of VE Day looking back in pictures.. (Original Post) Historic NY May 2015 OP

George MacDonald Fraser... malthaussen May 2015 #1

Thanks underpants May 2015 #2

Wow, what pictures! NBachers May 2015 #3

malthaussen

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1. George MacDonald Fraser...

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Fri May 8, 2015, 03:57 PM

May 2015

... in his memoir of the Burma campaign, Quartered Safe Out of Here, provides his usual sardonic take on VE Day for the soldiers outside of Europe.

-- Mal

underpants

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2. Thanks

Reply to Historic NY (Original post)

Fri May 8, 2015, 04:40 PM

May 2015

NBachers

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3. Wow, what pictures!

Reply to Historic NY (Original post)

Fri May 8, 2015, 08:03 PM

May 2015

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