# 75 years since VE day **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [May 8, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326 "2020-05-08T10:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/1 "2020-05-08T10:14:13Z")
It is today 75 years since Hitler’s Germany capitulated and WWII was officially over in Europe. Here in Norway a lot of arrangements was planned to mark this day, although a lot of Norway was free already 07. May. (Large parts of Northern Norway had been liberated by Soviet troops in late 1944) COVID-19 lockdown, which is still in force in Norway, made for a reduced celebration, but streamed speeches and gun salute was still arranged. Let us hope that the lessons learnt from that time is still remembered and the ugly ideas of the Nazies will NEVER gain ground again ANYWHERE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/2 "2020-05-08T14:58:09Z")
[https://www.redensigngroup.org/latest/news/taking-time-to-remember-those-lost-in-conflict/](https://www.redensigngroup.org/latest/news/taking-time-to-remember-those-lost-in-conflict/) … incl my namesake, brother of my mother, torpedoed on SS Kanbe off W. Africa and lost on this date in 1943. ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/3 "2020-05-08T15:12:57Z")
My father in law helped set up communications in England prior to the invasion. Retired from AT&T after a very long career. Came back from the war on the ship “Augustas Adolphus”. ---
**Author:** ![ShooterMcGavin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/shootermcgavin/32/1756_2.png) [@ShooterMcGavin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ShooterMcGavin)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/4 "2020-05-08T18:30:40Z")
And it wasn’t until October 24, 1951 that the state of war we declared on Germany on December 11, 1941 was lifted. So many folks think things went right back to normal when the bullets stopped flying. Now I’m in the mood for WW2 in Color. ---
**Author:** ![freighterman1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/freighterman1/32/11176_2.png) [@freighterman1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/freighterman1)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/5 "2020-05-08T19:00:12Z")
> [@ShooterMcGavin](#): > > So many folks think things went right back to normal when the bullets stopped flying. A lot of Americans don’t realize that rationing on some food items in Britain didn’t end until 1954, nine years after the war ended. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/6 "2020-05-08T20:13:02Z")
Actually the occupation of Germany only ended 5.May. 1955: > **[Allies end occupation of West Germany](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-end-occupation-of-west-germany)** > > The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) becomes a sovereign state when the United States, France, and Great Britain end their military occupation, which But both the US and UK still have troops stationed in Germany today ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/7 "2020-05-08T20:45:36Z")
I remember well that we had to bring ration card to buy most things well into the 1950’s in Norway. (Still have some old Ration Cards somewhere) For X-mas each family could buy 2 oranges per child. Otherwise no excotic fruit was available. An older cousin of mine went on a fishing trip to Greenland in the early 1950’s and brought back a few tins of canned pineapples. Had never tasted anything like that before. I eat so much I got sick. Have never liked canned pineapples ever since. (Fresh yes) ---
**Author:** ![Heiwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/heiwa/32/1054_2.png) [@Heiwa](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Heiwa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/8 "2020-05-09T05:12:45Z")
My father-in-law (b. 1913 - going to sea 1928) was torpedoed in the Pacific 1942 but managed to get back to Europe, where he was put on a ship going to Murmansk. He managed to get inside to Sweden and worked on ships carrying iron ore to Germany and coal back to Sweden, where he saw Hamburg going up in flames 1943. He had luck all the time and had seen most ports in the world. ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/9 "2020-05-09T05:16:38Z")
Wow ---
**Author:** ![powerabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@powerabout](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/powerabout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/10 "2020-05-09T13:43:10Z")
what will we call the day to mark victory over the wuhan wog? Will be a bigger party than VE day as it will be celebrated world wide ---
**Author:** ![Sand\_Pebble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Sand\_Pebble](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Sand_Pebble)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/11 "2020-05-09T15:01:29Z")
> [@powerabout](#): > > what will we call the day to mark victory over the wuhan wog? Whenever it happens it won’t look the same with excited sailors just rudding elbows or fist bumping with strange nurses in Time Square. ![download.jpeg-1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/1/1db2232adea443faffcdeb33f5c8871071671a1c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/12 "2020-05-09T15:27:43Z")
But not for exactly the same reason 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShooterMcGavin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/shootermcgavin/32/1756_2.png) [@ShooterMcGavin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ShooterMcGavin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/13 "2020-05-09T15:39:13Z")
Yes. I was referring to the actual lifting of the state of war on Germany. Occupation alone doesn’t constitute a state of war. ---
**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/14 "2020-05-09T16:20:56Z")
True - also technically the Korean War is ongoing and the Vietnam war never ended because it never started. It was a “police action” or similar, some BS work-around to avoid Congress having to have an opinion about something. ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/15 "2020-05-09T16:58:12Z")
You wouldn’t convince my Pop of that regarding Korean war. He was a seabee and ran the boats to evacuate refugees, and he was saddened by their treatment. Your lunch with him would not be fun. That both Koreas are at odds, is no surprise. ---
**Author:** ![spork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@spork](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spork)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/16 "2020-05-22T20:31:28Z")
For those interested in WW2 there is a historian called Mark Felton who does short but interesting videos about it on his channel ‘Mark Felton Productions’. He covers other wars but it’s mostly about WW2. The video below is quite interesting, it’s about how the Germans planned to attack New York with V-1 missiles. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/4/4fcf8ce52338ea8fb9fa277a85c1f19640505223.jpeg "Rocket U-Boats: V-1 Missile Attack New York 1945") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHUCV_EDOFI) He has another channel with slightly longer war stories called ‘War Stories with Mark Felton’, here is another maritime themed one about the Laconia incident, when the Americans committed a war crime in WW2. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/4/44d5496d3d4bcb0545d905710a54964d25c059e9.jpeg "The Laconia Incident") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_CG75P7hQ) ---
**Author:** ![spork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@spork](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spork)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/17 "2020-05-22T23:12:20Z")
There was a lesser known second attack on Pearl Harbour several months after the famous first one. It’s probably not widely known about because there were no American casualties, [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/d/d601a40aea9394f9ba346e10025384e5d01da96a.jpeg "The Second Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJMT-ajff-c) ---
**Author:** ![catherder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@catherder](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/catherder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/18 "2020-05-24T08:41:38Z")
Mark Felton is awesome! We’ve been watching his Youtube videos for some time now. ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/19 "2020-05-26T11:52:03Z")
Many years ago, I sailed with a Norwegian captain that had immigrated to the US. I recall a story he told me about the first time he had beef. He said he was about 8 years old, and told is mother, “This is great, what kind of fish is it?” ---
**Author:** ![spowiednick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/spowiednick/32/35668_2.png) [@spowiednick](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spowiednick)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326/20 "2022-12-07T10:28:04Z")
Some may consider it off topic but I do not care as this date must be remembered until hell frezes over especially when US Embassy in Warsaw seems too busy with LGBTQ++++ promotion and gender issues. On the 7th of December 1941 the whole WORLD FROZE upon hearing the : TORA TORA TORA Soon afterwards the great Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had spoken one of his greatest prophesies: I FEAR ALL WE HAVE DONE IS TO AWAKEN A SLEEPING GIANT AND FILL HIM WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE And he was DAMN RIGHT THEY HAD.!!! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIm06JOBtw) And this here is how they went under and were punished for irritating the giant [Hiroshima Bombing Remembered By An American Survivor | TODAY - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_1z5FOCvA) But before A -bomb treatment , they received the adequate measure of maritime revenge as revenge is the privilege of Gods and those who dare defy them . [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/0/7/074efd3ccfc94f66a5573c06da78998842e28e73.jpeg "Destruction of the unsinkable Super Battleship YAMATO. Operation Ten-ichi-Go") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GgXApjYZLw) [Next page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/75-years-since-ve-day/55326.md?page=2)