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It's Your America!
It’s Your America!
Friday, May 11, 1945 Here’s how we know it’s really over, says Daddy: 45,000 troops will return from Europe by the end of this month. Then they’ll be coming home at the rate of 10,000 a day. That’s 3,100,000 by the end of this year! Grandpa’s right, Daddy says. People are already behaving as if the war is over even if we’re still…
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The fighting ends, the infighting begins Thursday, May 10, 1945 The combat may be ending overseas but it’s a real slugfest in San Francisco.
Pivot to Japan Wednesday, May 9, 1945 It’s not really over, not with the war against Japan still to be settled.
V-E Day! Tuesday, May 8, 1945 We were so excited with Grandma’s visit and the news that I’m soon going to be a big sister, we didn’t follow the news the way we usually do.
Meeting T Rex Monday, May 7, 1945 Here’s what’s funny about Grandma’s visit. Daddy wrote: “Last week we worked every day and night cleaning the house.
Grandma’s here! Sunday, May 6, 1945 Grandma’s here! Now I know why Mommy made that banana refrigerator cake. Daddy picked Grandma up at the railroad station last evening so she was here when I woke up this morning.
Banana Refrigerator Cake Saturday, May 5, 1945 Eisenhower says the enemy is whipped! Millions of Nazis are surrendering. But our victory has brought a new problem: we are now feeding millions of people in Europe.
Going down with the ship
Going down with the ship
Friday, May 4, 1945 It’s fitting that an admiral is now head of the German government cause he’s going down with the ship! The Nazis are in a total rout, fleeing to Norway where Quisling is still in charge. Thousands of them fought for places on any boat they could find – fishing boats, rafts, barges. Meanwhile British pilots blasted them from the skies taking down 64 ships. British armored units…
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Uncertainty about Heisenberg
Friday, May 3, 1945 Daddy shakes his head in disbelief at the news. He tells Mommy about studying the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in Physics. Now, he finds out, Werner Heisenberg has just been arrested by the Allies. He already had a Nobel Prize when the war broke out. It’s a certainty that if anyone could help Nazis develop an…
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The fat lady gets ready to sing Thursday, May 2, 1945 The fat lady just might be singing soon, says Daddy! Hitler may be dead.
Russian parade sends a warning Tuesday, May 1, 1945 Russia's May Day parade was the biggest ever. This parade was a celebration.
Il Duce’s death [Warning: graphic images] Monday, Apr 30, 1945 Il Duce is dead. Yes, Benito Mussolini was shot and his body was dumped in a public square.
Sunday homebodies
Sunday, Apr 29, 1945 The temperature dropped to near freezing last night. Daddy took a sad look at his little seedlings but decided to trust that sunlight and warmth would revive them. So instead of working in the garden today, we all got busy indoors , even me. He wrote a funny letter home about it: “I worked from sunrise to sunset with a broom in one hand and a mop in the other. We even washed…
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Russia and the USA join hands
Russia and the USA join hands
Saturday, Apr 28, 1945 Truman and Stalin are hailing the linking of their two armies at the Elbe River. The newspapers are carrying the dramatic story of American Lt William D Robertson calling, “Put it there” and extending his hand to a Russian counterpart as they squirmed across a girder of the blown-up bridge high above the…
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Schadenfreude
Friday, Apr 27, 1945 The Russians have take two-thirds of Berlin and set Germans fleeing toward American prisoner-of-war camps. The paper reports how a young woman in a fur coat and high heels handed a boatman on the Elbe River a roll of Reichsmarks. She was desperate to reach the safety of the American prisoner-of-war camp on the…
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1 man, 3 votes
1 man, 3 votes
Thursday, Apr 26, 1945 The Reds have surrounded Berlin. Patton is within 15 miles of Austria. The Germans are battling in the streets, in the subways – everywhere. The war of words is heating up, too as delegates gather in San Francisco to shape the world that will emerge when this war is over. President Truman called on the delegates to establish “a world organization for the enforcement of…
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Fairy tale romance to concentration camp nightmare Wednesday, Apr 25, 1945 The liberation of concentration camps has brought many terrible and tragic stories into the open.