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- initialism Victory-Europe, from
World War II .
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Or, to quote a museum staffer who hailed Mr. Heckscher much like one assumes his troops did Eisenhower on V-E Day OK, so I'm getting a bit overwrought, but Mr. Heckscher, the Lawrence A. Fleischman chairman of the American Wing, has been overseeing this renovation since 2001: "Sir, congratulations."
American Idyll Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012
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But that court was a unique military tribunal, created specifically for the circumstances after V-E Day.
Terror on Trial William Shawcross 2012
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Sadly, V-E and V-J Day will pass mostly unnoticed here in the US.
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Six months after V-E Day the U.S. Army was but a shadow of the powerful force that had overwhelmed the Wehrmacht.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Shortly after V-E Day, Eisenhower spoke about the likelihood of continued cooperation with the USSR.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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May 9 is the Russian V-E Day, and celebrates the defeat of the Nazis (the one good thing that the Soviets did help do, of course after helping the Nazis a few years earlier).
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Say what you will about the propriety of the Americans marching in the Russian V-E Day parade
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Say what you will about the propriety of the Americans marching in the Russian V-E Day parade, especially given the current state of the Russian government.
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Say what you will about the propriety of the Americans marching in the Russian V-E Day parade, especially given the current state of the Russian government.
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The realities facing the United States in the weeks and months after V-E Day differed sharply from wartime imaginings.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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