Editor’s Note: In 2020 during my interview with Col. Harold Brown (Ret.), a Tuskegee airman who became a POW in Germany in March 1945, Harold said he just happened to be standing near the area of his POW camp when Gen. George Patton and his Third Army broke down the fences to liberate the camp….
May 8, 1945: V-E Day
Homes a few miles from the Normandy beaches near Ste. Mere Eglise still fly Allied flags to celebrate D-Day, the beginning of the liberation of Europe on June 6, 1944. (Photo: RET)