Commemoration of May 8, 1945

David Rabeau was decorated with the Combatant's Cross for his participation in external operations by Colonel Wintzer.

The children of the SOS children of the northern islands association presented the trip they made to the beaches of Normandy.

Every year on this date, France and its territories commemorate an important date in the Gregorian calendar: May 8, 1945, which marks the end of the 2nd World War.

The story in 4 dates:

1. May 8, 1945 marked the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe.
2. The Third Reich collapsed on May 2, 1945 after the Soviet victory over German troops.
3. The surrender of the German army was signed on May 7, 1945 in Reims, at the headquarters of the Allied forces in Western Europe, led by American General Eisenhower.
4. On May 8, 1945, a new act of capitulation was signed in Berlin by the German high command, in the presence of the USSR, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. May 8, 1945 thus marked the end of the Second World War in Europe.

It would take a few more months for Japan to capitulate after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (in August 1945), and for the end of the Second World War to be officially declared on September 2, 1945.