PHOTO GALLERY:Europe-US-V-E-Day
PHOTO GALLERY:Europe-US-V-E-Day
Directors of the WWII Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz, left, and his wife Mathilde Schmetz speak during an interview at their museum in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
An American soldier, identified as Patsy Caliendo, is laid to rest in the largest Allied military cemetery on the Western Front March 14, 1945, in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. (AP Photo/William C. Allen, File)
Gravestones of American WWII soldiers at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Henri Chapelle, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director of the Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz raises an U.S. flag next to a WWII American Sherman tank in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
An American soldier runs past a burning German half-track in the recaptured town of La Gleize, Belgium, in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Carroll, File)
FILE- U.S. Battle of the Bulge veteran Arthur Jacobson, left, and his family have a lunch in the dining room of the WWII Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director of the WWII Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz, stands near vintage WWII vehicles inside his museum in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Looking north from 44th Street, New York’s Times Square is packed Monday, May 7, 1945, with crowds celebrating the news of Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons, File)
FILE- World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, poses on the dune overlooking Omaha Beach prior to a ceremony at his memorial in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of assaults during D-Day in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. (Chief Photographer’s Mate Robert M. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, center, and Marie Pacale Legrand during a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast. (U.S. Army via AP, File)
World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, salutes the grave of fellow soldier Edward Morozewicz at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, left, walks in the dunes overlooking Omaha Beach with men in WWII period uniforms after a Native American ceremony at his memorial in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, left, and Marie Pacale Legrand walk by graves during a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
President Donald Trump, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Directors of the WWII Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz, left, and his wife Mathilde Schmetz speak during an interview at their museum in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Directors of the WWII Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz, left, and his wife Mathilde Schmetz speak during an interview at their museum in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
An American soldier, identified as Patsy Caliendo, is laid to rest in the largest Allied military cemetery on the Western Front March 14, 1945, in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. (AP Photo/William C. Allen, File)
An American soldier, identified as Patsy Caliendo, is laid to rest in the largest Allied military cemetery on the Western Front March 14, 1945, in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. (AP Photo/William C. Allen, File)
Gravestones of American WWII soldiers at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Henri Chapelle, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Gravestones of American WWII soldiers at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Henri Chapelle, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director of the Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz raises an U.S. flag next to a WWII American Sherman tank in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Director of the Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz raises an U.S. flag next to a WWII American Sherman tank in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
An American soldier runs past a burning German half-track in the recaptured town of La Gleize, Belgium, in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Carroll, File)
An American soldier runs past a burning German half-track in the recaptured town of La Gleize, Belgium, in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Carroll, File)
FILE- U.S. Battle of the Bulge veteran Arthur Jacobson, left, and his family have a lunch in the dining room of the WWII Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
FILE- U.S. Battle of the Bulge veteran Arthur Jacobson, left, and his family have a lunch in the dining room of the WWII Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director of the WWII Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz, stands near vintage WWII vehicles inside his museum in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director of the WWII Remember Museum 1939-1945, Marcel Schmetz, stands near vintage WWII vehicles inside his museum in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Looking north from 44th Street, New York’s Times Square is packed Monday, May 7, 1945, with crowds celebrating the news of Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons, File)
Looking north from 44th Street, New York’s Times Square is packed Monday, May 7, 1945, with crowds celebrating the news of Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons, File)
FILE- World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, poses on the dune overlooking Omaha Beach prior to a ceremony at his memorial in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
FILE- World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, poses on the dune overlooking Omaha Beach prior to a ceremony at his memorial in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of assaults during D-Day in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. (Chief Photographer’s Mate Robert M. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)
This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of assaults during D-Day in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. (Chief Photographer’s Mate Robert M. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, center, and Marie Pacale Legrand during a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, center, and Marie Pacale Legrand during a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast. (U.S. Army via AP, File)
Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast. (U.S. Army via AP, File)
World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, salutes the grave of fellow soldier Edward Morozewicz at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, salutes the grave of fellow soldier Edward Morozewicz at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, left, walks in the dunes overlooking Omaha Beach with men in WWII period uniforms after a Native American ceremony at his memorial in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, left, walks in the dunes overlooking Omaha Beach with men in WWII period uniforms after a Native American ceremony at his memorial in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, left, and Marie Pacale Legrand walk by graves during a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
World War II D-Day veteran and Penobscot Elder from Maine, Charles Norman Shay, left, and Marie Pacale Legrand walk by graves during a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
President Donald Trump, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
President Donald Trump, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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