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Offline Jack55

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« on: May 08, 2003, 11:55:17 AM »
Today is Victory in Europe day, as in the day the Axis were defeated in Europe during WW2.  

VJ is in August, and since it was the end of the whole mess, it is a state holiday in Rhode Island.  I'm not sure if VE or VJ days are celibrated anywhere else.
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Offline hawk220

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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2003, 12:10:46 PM »
I'm glad its celebrated somewhere.. its hardly a blip on the evening news here. maybe if they need to fill 15 seconds of airtime.
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2003, 12:17:07 PM »
Maybe I can convince the wife to see "Saving Private Ryan" instead of "Friends" tonight.
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2003, 01:31:31 PM »
both sides of the conflict for their sacrifice.  Glad the Allies came out on top... I got a D in German at university.
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« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2003, 11:59:00 PM »
"at University"

Are you some kind of Limey prevert?
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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2003, 12:05:29 AM »
Its recognized in the southern states, just not as "VE" day.  Rather, its called "WSYA" day. (We saved your ass)

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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2003, 12:39:48 AM »
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"at University"

Are you some kind of Limey prevert?


No.. but my attempts to be just like Dowding have obviously not gone without notice...
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Offline midnight Target

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Re: VE Day
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2003, 09:35:42 AM »
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Today is Victory in Europe day, as in the day the Axis were defeated in Europe during WW2.  

VJ is in August, and since it was the end of the whole mess, it is a state holiday in Rhode Island.  I'm not sure if VE or VJ days are celibrated anywhere else.


Why not September 2nd?
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Offline straffo

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« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2003, 09:55:25 AM »
what happened september 2nd ?
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2003, 10:07:21 AM »


Japanese Surrender on the USS Missouri
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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2003, 10:50:47 AM »
those guns are hauuuuge!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2003, 04:03:47 PM »
Oops ...
I thought it was early (in fact I thought it was at the end of aout)
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Offline Jack55

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Re: Re: VE Day
« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2003, 09:11:07 PM »
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Why not September 2nd?



http://www.dlt.state.ri.us/lmi/business/holidays.htm


I think it marks the day when they got the informal surrender from the Japanese.

They move Victory Day around to make a three day weekend, so the holiday moves a little from year to year.
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Re: VE Day
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2003, 05:09:43 AM »
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I'm not sure if VE or VJ days are celibrated anywhere else.


In Denmark it is the time of the surrender of the local Wehrmacht forces in the country that is celebrated. This was May 5th, known as "Befrielsen" (The Liberation)
The surrender was announced in the radio May 4th to take effect the next morning for troops in Holland, NW Germany and Denmark.

Edit: The surrender did not included the german forces on Bornholm (the island some hundred miles east of Copenhagen). The commandant here refused to surrender to the russians so they bombed the two largest towns on the island before they landed troops that stayed until April 1946.
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