The biggest field army in US history had to transition into an occupation force, and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers in Europe had to redeploy halfway around the world for the expected invasion of Japan. When Germany surrendered to the Allies on May 8, 1945, the US Army suddenly faced an enormous new task. Top Image: American Soldiers of the US 9th Army cheer as the SS John Ericsson approaches Pier 84 in the Hudson River at the end of World War II.
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