European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                4948 the stars and stripes Page a 9 e Toto railway As of May of lusting and Marine the of German 1 or 161 German 5 re air and German i Tater of the n who occupied the table nip the War the surrender was signed a few blocks from Rheims Cathedral j r shows Benhower used Ier Bis students the Battle map in to direct his Campaign photos by Lawrence stir jr4 s hit Diers in the european theater on the morning of the today there Are Many the army at its be Day had occupied pieces of real 14 150 air 200 hospitals and hundreds of military the memorable meeting in Rheims didst last the surrender was signed in five 55 Miles East of the comping be where Germany surrendered to the allies in world War i on and where the capitulation of France to Hitler took place on june Jodl arrived in Rheims by plane from Germany on the afternoon of May Hans Georg von commander chief the Ger Man was already Here and had started final the other German Delegate was Wilhelm a Bdl facing them were 12 Allied they were Smith Sousla Paroff seven commander of the strategic air Force sir Harold British commander of Allied naval who signed terms involving naval forces Only British air marshal sir of the Allied air staff British sir Deputy chief of staff to Eisen Hower assistant chief of g3 Ivan russian aide French and Ivan russian when Smith called the germans Jodl walked straight up to the Middle of the Friedeberg and Oxenius fell in on both sides of him and All the officers took their seats Smith handed the copy of the surrender terms to the russian who listened while his interpreter read it to him in his own the it acting by authority of the German High hereby surrender unconditionally to the supreme com Allied expeditionary arid simultaneously to the soviet High All forces on sea and air who Are at this Date under German the russian nodded his head in agreement with the then Smith handed Jodl four copies and told him to cameramen were darting All Over the climbing ladders and standing on As he signed jowls face was grim and in seemed much More disturbed by the two Days on May he committed before he left the room Jodl he addressing with this signature the German people and German armed forces Are for better or worse delivered into the victors in this which has lasted More thai five years they have both achieved and suffered More than perhaps any other people in the he seemed to choke up and appeared on the verge of he in this the maps on the Wall of the War room Are exactly As they were on the morning of May not a single pin has been one Wall includes the entire Allied air order of i hour i can Only express the Hope that the will treat them with his voice was but his hands were trembling when lie Smith just nodded his head As the three Ger mans left the for Eisenhower staffer covered surrender sign it by Henry staff correspondent May 8 Story of the German surrender at three years ago was covered for the stars and stripes by Charles in addition As the Only correspondent assigned to cover Dwight wrote the Story of the preliminary negotiations leading up to the capitulation for the world previously a member of the staff of the Jersey City he joined the stars and stripes Early in he was sports editor in Liege and was in charge there at the closing of the Liege his assignment to cover Eisenhower care in april As a he was present at the surrender and wrote an eyewitness account of the a news report which also constitutes historic after the Rheims surrender Kiley flew to the with covering the letters victorious later he joined the staff of the new York Herald where he is now assistant night City Kiley was recommended for a pulitzer prize for his surrender Story by Robert managing editor of the stars and stripes and now sunday editor of the new York Herald last month a Bill was introduced by Arthur capper to award medals to Kiley and 15 other War correspondents who witnessed the German and who adhered to their pledge of of the newsmen at capper said from their Battle battered typewriters the Century news mocked and challenged Here was the scoop they had lived for All their paper Here was the Story the whole War weary world was waiting to but they chose not to breathe a word of during the War Kiley also served As a combat correspondent with the 8th air his friends recall that he went Home to cover the world series in 1944 and was referred to by Newsweek As a Bette looking Pat Obrien Kiley is married and the father of one the keys to the War room Are enclosed in a Glass ease in the Middle of the surrender they were presented to the City of Rheims by a Delegate of the French is Misnomer the Little red schoolhouse at As the building in which the surrender was Signecio has often been is really not so Little after actually it takes up a full City Block in this French City of some ranging in Ages from 11 to now in its rooms under a faculty of about 150 the War which was opened to the Public As an International shrine on july has been set off apart from the rest of the school and a sep Arate Entrance historic meeting place has