Subject:    Message from Supreme Headquarters Allied
                                    Expeditionary Forces Forward received at 070642B.

                    To:           See Distribution

                                    "A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND SIGNED
                    THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF ALL GERMAN LAND, SEA, AND AIR
                    FORCES IN EUROPE TO THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND SIMUL-
                    TANEOUSLY TO THE SOVIET HIGH COMMAND AT 0141B CENTRAL EUROPEAN
                    TIME, 7 MAY, UNDER WHICH ALL FORCES WILL CEASE ACTIVE
                    OPERATIONS AT 0001B, 9 MAY.
 
                                    EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY ALL OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS BY
                    ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WILL CEASE AND TROOPS WILL REMAIN
                    IN PRESENT POSITIONS.  MOVES INVOLVED IN OCCUPATIONAL DUTIES
                    WILL CONTINUE.  DUE TO DIFFICULTIES OF COMMUNICATION THERE MAY
                    BE SOME DELAY IN SIMILAR ORDERS REACHING ENEMY TROOPS SO FULL
                    DEFENSIVE PRECAUTIONS WILL BE TAKEN.

                                    ALL INFORMED DOWN TO AND INCLUDING DIVSIONS, TACTI-
                    CAL AIR COMMANDS AND GROUPS, BASE SECTIONS, AND EQUIVALENT.
                    NO RELEASE WILL BE MADE TO THE PRESS PENDING AN ANNOUNCEMENT
                    BY THE HEADS OF THE THREE GOVERNMENTS.

                                                                                                                SIGNED
                                                                                                                                EISENHOWER."
 
                                                                                                                GILLEM
                                                                                                               Maj.   Gen.