Today, 75 years ago
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 07:23 last edited by
WW2 ended.
Took around 19 deaths per minute.
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 10:58 last edited by jon-nyc 5 Aug 2020, 10:59
Europe celebrates May 8 as the day the war ended. We call that VE (Victory, Europe) Day. VJ Day was August 15th and was a much bigger celebration here, because then it was finally over.
When I lived in Paris in 2002 it was a public holiday, things were closed.
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 12:35 last edited by Doctor Phibes 5 Aug 2020, 12:35
The UK had planned all kinds of celebrations for this - they moved the normal May Day holiday to today. Sadly, but not surprisingly pretty much everything's cancelled that would have involved any kind of social contact.
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 12:54 last edited by
Can we focus for a minute on the fact that Doctor Phibes is from GROSSBRITANN?
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 13:42 last edited by
@89th said in Today, 75 years ago:
Can we focus for a minute on the fact that Doctor Phibes is from GROSSBRITANN?
Focusing... focusing....
Ok... I'm done.
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 15:27 last edited by
Never eat pears!
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Never eat pears!
wrote on 8 May 2020, 15:48 last edited byRather disappointing that the chart doesn't show Canadian WW2 casualties.
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 16:21 last edited by
There are some significant differences with this:
I have no idea which is more accurate. They might be counting different things.
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wrote on 8 May 2020, 16:23 last edited by