Fifty years ago this month, Nazi Germany's surrender to the Allies ended World War II in Europe.
Smiles are the order of the day after news of victory in Europe reaches troops in Burma.
A little French girl with straight black hair tightly held in ribbons was the first to see what was happening. She remembered the men in field-gray uniforms who the Allies had chased from her country. Her exclamation may have sounded contradictory, but the arrival of the German soldiers this time around meant the end of the war. The victory came on the heels of a great Allied sweep after the liberation of France and the crossing of the Rhine River in Germany. Even when, on March 2, the U.S. Ninth Army reached the Rhine near Dusseldorf, Adolf Hitler still refused to sanction withdrawal of the German troops behind the Rhine.