As Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith (1895 - 1961) signed on behalf of the Supreme Commander the Instrument of Surrender the Armed Forces of Germany in Reims, France on May 7, 1945. On the left - Chief of Staff of the British Navy, Admiral Sir Harold Martin Burrough, (1889-1977), on the right - the chief Soviet military mission in France, Major General Ivan Susloparov (1897-1974).


Signing of Surrender

An M4A3 (75) Sherman tank and combat soldiers of the U.S. 37th Infantry Division cautiously probe the area from Japanese defenders in Luzon, the Philippines. January, 1945.

Battle for Luzon

U.S. Army Lt. Chester L. Slaughter inspects the captured German trenches. Nearby lies the body of a German soldier, who suffered a mortal head wound by the shrapnel of rifle grenades.