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Victory in Europe Day commemoration - Wichita Veterans Memorial Park
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Victory in Europe Day commemoration

  • VE Day newspaper headline announcing victory.
  • Newspaper headline: Nazis surrender, end European war.
  • World War II memorial with engraved text.
  • Three people standing with hands over hearts.
  • Two men bowing heads in remembrance ceremony.
  • Two men in uniform shirts outdoors.
  • Group gathered outdoors in a park setting.
  • Man playing trumpet with American flag background.
  • Man saluting with bugler and hooded figure.
  • Man saluting with trumpet player in background.
  • People observing a bugler in a park.
  • Two women standing with hands on hearts.
Category
2022
About This Project

Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe. (SOURCE: Wikipedia, Victory in Europe Day.)

A small crowd gathered under sunny skies on Sunday May 8, 2022 to commemorate the war against “Hitler’s Germany” ending on this day. The brief ceremony included:

  • Chaplain invocation
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • Remarks by WVMP Board Member Tom Huxtable
  • Bugler (“Taps”)
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