We have attached page from the "Diary of Participation in W.W. II" which was compiled by the editors of THINK MAGAZINE; this one page in particular contains a printable copy of a portion of President Harry Truman's VE-Day Proclamation of May 8, 1945:
"The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have won from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The Western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born men... Much remains to be done. The victory won in the West must now be won in the East..."
Click here to read how the Army intended to transfer men from the ETO to the Pacific Theater.
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