Unconditional surrender of Germany signed at Reims. U.S.

Unconditional surrender of Germany signed at Reims. U.S. Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Allied Expeditionary Force, affixes his signature on behalf of the Allied High Command to the docum,ent of unconditional surrender of Germany after it had been signed by the representatives of the German government sitting at the tabel across from him. The unconditional surrender of Germany was signed at 2:41 a.m. May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Forward Headquaters, at Reims France. On General Smith's right is British Admiral Harold M. Burrough, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Naval Expeditionary Forces, and on his left are Major General :Ivan Susloparoff, of the Russian Artillery, who signed the surrgender document on behalf of the Soviet High Command, and General Carl A. Spaatz, Commanding General, U.S. Strategiec Air Forces.