Happy VE Day!

[Edward]

Happy VE Day! This 1945 Ever Ready Desk Calendar in my collection was Army Col. Howard Ayers SR WWII Personal Property. Col Ayers was a then Major in the U.S. Army working in the General Douglas MacArthur camp and handwritten on the page is when he was notified of VE Day (“Notice Received 1019”)

 

[Micawber]

Lest We Forget.

 

[Micawber]

 

[johnwayne]

Crikey, I can't even attempt to think what might have gone through people's heads back then, a real mix bag of emotions that's for sure.

 

[Micawber]

I cherish this photo of some of my mothers family and their neighbours celebrating VE Day, it is so of its time. One of my uncles is giving some to the V for victory sign for which he received a sore backside later ....despite Churchill sometimes doing it that way round sometimes

 

[B-Man2]

Hahaha... would be be the chap in the bottom row on the right?

 

[Micawber]

Hahaha... would be be the chap in the bottom row on the right?

The one trying to hide his face next door but one

 

[Smithy]

Every 8th of May most people here fly the Norwegian flag out the front of their houses. The day still means a lot for people in countries such as this one which were under German occupation. I think it hardly got a mention back in NZ and Oz, then again we have our big day just a couple of weeks earlier on the 25th April with ANZAC Day.

But I had the Norwegian flag proudly flying out the front yesterday!

 

[Flightengineer]

Here it is a Great national holiday 9 May, when we a honor veterans and commemorate the dead in this terrible war.