1.1K views · 3.8K reactions | Today marks 80 years since VE Day – Victory in Europe. These scenes from Gateshead in 1945 show just a small glimpse of the relief and celebration that spread across the UK as the war in Europe came to an end | The Archbishop of Banterbury | Facebook

On May 8, 1945 - known as Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day - celebrations erupted around the world to mark the end of World War II in Europe. The war raged for almost five years when U.S. and Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The invasion signaled the beginning of the end for Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. In less than a year, Germany would surrender and Hitler would be dead. But in his speech to the nation on V-E Day, President Harry S. Truman cautioned t

2.4K views · 165 reactions | Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last shots fired on the 11th. | Veterans' Foundation | Facebook

17K views · 340 reactions | 74 years ago today, on May 8th 1945, #Pittsburgh celebrated V-E Day (Victory in Europe) thus marking the end of #WorldWar2 in Europe. Filmed by Rev. Dr. Raymond Brittain, who was the first assistant chaplain at Heinz Memorial Chapel. | The Odd, Mysterious & Fascinating History of Pittsburgh | Facebook

8 MAY 1945 - VICTORY in EUROPE DAY ("V-E DAY") #WWII V-E Day marked the end of World War II in the European Theater of Operations #Armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOC #VEDay #WW2 #WW2History Secretary of the Army U.S. Army U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) | U.S. Army Center of Military History