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staged their V-E celebration together...
...would reach from the earth to Venus. By comparison with the past, it was $104 billion more than the U.S. had spent - in war and peace - from 1789 to 1940. In cold figures, it was what the U.S. had spent on World War II from mid-1940 up through V-E...
...Black Flag. On V-E day, there were 100 U-boats in German ports, many of them scuttled. Seventy others were loose in the Atlantic, 20 of them on the North American side. Allied naval authorities ordered them to surface and stay surfaced, fly a black surrender flag,* radio their positions, proceed to Allied ports as instructed...
Bacchic Rout. Toward 4 o'clock in the morning the rioting subsided. But the lull was illusory. By early afternoon of V-E day a bacchic rout of men, women and even children reeled down Barrington, Hollis and, Granville Streets smashing more windows and sacking more stores. Said one elderly woman: "I never had so much fun in my life...
...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 71, Britain's very "Red Dean" of Canterbury, was seized by high-spirited Russians as he emerged from a Moscow hotel on V-E day, got himself tossed high into the air. Said he shakily: "Thanks. Congratulations...