FLASH: ALLIES OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED GERMANS SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY-- Part 1

Continued from previous post.  These are excerpts for AP dispatches that day.

BULLETIN:  Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Western Allies and Russia at 2:41 a.m., French time today.

REIMS, France:  Germany surrendered to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union at 2:41 a.m. French time today.  (This was at 8:41 p.m. Eastern War Zone Time, Sunday May 6. 1945.)

The surrender took place at the little red school house that is the headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The surrender was signed for Germany by Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl.  Gen. Jodl is the new chief of staff of the German Army.

The surrender was signed for the Supreme Allied Command by Lt. Gen. Walter Beddell Smith, chief of staff for Gem. Eisenhower.  It was also signed by Gen. Ivan Susloparov of the Soviet Union and by Gen. Francois Sevez for France.

Joy at the news was tempered only be the realization that  the war against Japan remains to be resolved.

--GreGen