Senior Allied commanders signing documents at Rheims, France shortly after the German mission signed the Instrument of Surrender at the College Moderne et Technique on 7th May 1945. Pictured are Major General Ivan Suslaparov (1897-1974) and Colonel Znkovitch (representing the Russian Red Army), along with (right) General Carl Spaatz (1891-1974), Commanding United States Strategic Air Forces, and Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb (1895-1968) and (left) Lieutenant Ivan Chermaoff.