Victory 1945

World War II ended in Europe on VE Day - May 8, 1945 - but during the final months of the war many Canadians fighting overseas in Europe and the Pacific wondered if they would live to see the spring of 1945. In Part I of VICTORY 1945, entitled The Last Days, a dozen elderly Canadian men and women relate their personal, often heroic, stories of that dramatic wartime period sixty years ago.

World War II ended on VE Day in May 1945 for those Canadians fighting in Europe. Mixed with the joy & celebration of this sudden, new peace were daunting realities getting the hundreds of thousands of war-weary troops and POWs home, and finding jobs for these returning men and women as their country made the transition from war to peace.