General Dwight D. Eisenhower Poster

Description

Senior Allied commanders celebrate at Rheims shortly after General Eisenhower had addressed the German mission who had just signed the unconditional surrender document. Present are (left to right): General Ivan Susloparov (Soviet Union), Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan (British Army), Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith (US Army), Captain Kay Summersby (US Army) (obscured), Harry C. Butcher (US Navy), General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (US Army), Air Marshal Arthur Tedder (Royal Air Force).