Germans surrender to Allies

Title:: Germans surrender to Allies
Creator:: United States. Army. Signal Corps
Name on Item:: Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps
Date:: May 7, 1945
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: American Legion Museum
Collection (local):: World War II by Combat Photographers
Subjects:: Military officers
Surrenders
Document signings
World War, 1939-1945
Jodl, Alfred, 1890-1946
Friedeburg, Hans Georg von, 1895-1945
Morgan, Frederick, 1894-1967
Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961
Spaatz, Carl, 1891-1974
Robb, James, 1895-1968
Bull, Harold Roe, 1893-1976
Places:: France > Grand Est (region) > Rheims
Extent:: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 format)
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Caption: [...] Jodl, German Chief of Staff under Doenitz regime, (center with back to camera) signs unconditional surrender document in War Room, SHAEF, Reims, France. On his left Is Gen. Admiral Von Friedeburg of German Navy, on his right is Maj. Wilhelm Oxenius of German General Staff. Across the table are Allied officers (left to right), Lt. Gen. Sir F. E. Morgan, Deputy Chief of Staff; Gen. Francois Sevez, representative of Gen. Alphonse Juin, French Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold M. Burrough, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Naval Expeditionary Forces; Lt. Gen. W. B. Smith, Chief of staff to Gen. Eisenhower; Maj. Gen. of Artillery Ivan Susloparoff, Russian representative; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, CO, USSTAF; Air Marshall J. M. Robb; Maj. Gen. H. R. Bull, Asst. Chief of Staff, G-3, SHAEF; and Senior Lt. Col. Ivan Zenkovitch, interpreter. 5/7/45.
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Identifier:: 1-184