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[soft piano music]

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(Harold Radish) The British flew us into Brussels. We had
been cleaned up from the prison camp. We had

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been fed. I remember getting into Brussels,
they gave us a couple hours off. We went out

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to a bar. We drank some beer, then we went
to sleep. [Laughs] That was true liberation.

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(Frank Cohn) I had absolutely no fear that we were going to lose
the war. We were going to win.

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(Harry Miller) V-E Day meant

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the end of a lot of struggle and a lot of
heartache.

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(Peter Martinek) It was, I was thrilled it was all over.

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(Tom Fitzpatrick) I was on a B-17 crew on Victory in Europe
Day, so we gathered up all these red flares.

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There was a small hill behind our camp. We
plugged these in all over the hill - must have

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been a thousand of them. We lit them all at
the same time. It was quite a display. That

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was one of our celebrations.

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(Sam Lombardo) My medic always
wanted to go hunting, and he went out with

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his buddy, and within 20 minutes they came
back with a deer. So we had venison on V-E

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Day. We saved not only America, we saved Western
culture, Western civilization.