MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show September 5, 2020
Heres another one. This one is from not very much later. This is from may 8th, 1945, the day after the successor to a very recently dead adolf hitler signed the Unconditional Surrender of the nazis in northeastern france. These three u. S. Soldiers in this photo are in beckham, germany, here. You can see the reason theyre holding what looks like pots and pans, theyre holding their mess kits in one hand. Theyve got the nazis quit, front page of stars and stripes in the other hand. And all three of them are wearing an ear to ear grin. Heres another shot from three months later. Japan surrenders ...