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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-49101

V-E Day, 8 May 1945


Senior Officers of the U.S. Armed Forces make a radio broadcast in Washington, D.C., following the official announcement of Victory in Europe on 8 May 1945.
They are (from left to right):
General of the Army George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army;
Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Senior Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and
Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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14 September 2001