Today V-E Day! – Chicago Daily Tribune 05/08/1945

Headline: “Today-V-E-Day!”
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, May 5, 1945

This newspaper reports on what might be the most historic day of the 20th century – V-E day, the official day of Allied victory over Germany.

This piece is filled with photos spanning the war in Europe, an almost daily log of all major events in the war, and a very interesting article about how Allied strategy around manufacturing won the war.  There will still pockets of resistance, but the focus was turning to victory against Japan and eventual demobilization.

Very readable condition.

Lots of interesting articles and pictures in the photo gallery for this newspaper.

Images in this photo gallery include:

• full front page of this newspaper
• close up from front page of a drawing of Uncle Sam giving Eisenhower a “good job” handshake
• article about the Soviets searching for Hitlers body – some believe he escaped on a submarine to Japan
• short article about how different U.S. cities reacted to the news of German defeat
• short article about how Soviets were reporting four million killed at the Oswiecim camp
• editorial cartoon about the German defeat – Japan still lurks on the horizon
• German soldiers crossing the Maas river into the Netherlands in 1940, you can see the bridge destroyed by Dutch resistance forces in the background
• German soldiers marching toTrondheim, 1940
• German soldiers marching on the Champs Elysees, passing under the Arc De Triomphe on August 10, 1940
• Germans manning a gun turret on the Flanders coast, looking out into the English Channel
• American troops storming the beach at Sarcouf in Algeria, 1942
• American soldiers hang around jeeps in Gela Sicily, 1943
• U.S. soldiers march past the Colosseum in 1944
• a destroyed German supply convoy in Stalingrad
•  barrage balloons hover over the beach at Normandy during the D Day invasion
• German troops withdraw from Belgium
• An example of the special ads run for the occasion; a patriotic Maurice Rothschild ad
• long articles about how Allied manufacturing strategy won the war
• daily log of major events in the war against Germany
• Orphan Annie and Gasoline Alley comic strips
• Dick Tracy and Terry comic strips
• Winnie Winkle, Harold Teen and Smitty comic strips
• map of German controlled territory in different phases of the war