Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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zoo GAZETTE iextra iGAN, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1945. UNITED PRESS PRTPF DAILY AXD SLNDAV 3 : PER COPY X i. ,i.oiii deli erf:d t days a week 25e IKKeNDlKS! lOPEfNDS Nazi Chief of Staff Signs Terms in Headquarters of Gen. Eisenhower at Reims Greatest European Conflict in History Ends After Five Years, Eight Months and Six Days; Wild Joy in London, New York Is Tempered Only by Realization Victory over Japan Yet to Be Won By The Associated Press LONDON - The greatest European war in history end- ed today with the unconditional surrender ot Germany, The surrender ot the Reich to the Western Allies and Russia was made at Gen. Eisenhower ' s littl e red schoolhouse headquarters at Reims, France, by Col. Gen, Gustat Jodl, chiet of staff for the German army. This was announced officially after German broad casts told the German people that Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz had ordered the capitulation of all fighting forces, and called off the U-boat war. . 40,000,000 Casual fies Joy at the news was tempered only by the realisation

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FOR NAVY action, when the war w as moving closer and closer to Japan. They made cracks about the Battle of Kalamazoo and the men behind the Wacs and Waves. But they stuck it out and they realized that college and Navy ■were preparing them for their in- evitable roles in the thick of it. When some of the marines w ho lived last year in Spindler Hall w ere killed in action on Iw o Jima, w hen some of Vandercrooks ' former V-12 ' s were -wounded w hile ' with the Fleet — sailors and students, too, came to the sober kno wledge that college Navy units -were, after all, pretty important. We had fun w ith the Navy. Friendships and engagements and marriages, for that matter, resulted from the association of bluejackets and Western coeds. Many of the fellows have told us they think Western ' s tops and that they will come back to study here under the G.I. Bill of Rights. One of them, Tom Hill, has already returned and became this spring the Student Council ' s first male president since 1942. Best of luck, you fellows w ho pull out of Kalamazoo this June and October! And remem- ber that, though you were half Navy and half college w hile here. Western liked you and con- siders you Bronchoites w ith the best of ' em! jS s »i»— — -