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NLT-287 0 7 May 1945 TOP -DECRET URGENT 1945 MAY 7 6 24 4874 FROM: OPNAV 070630Z NCR TO: ALUSNA MOSCOW PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR MARSHAL STALIN. NUMBER 949. 260 Referring to General Eisenhower's message SCAF 358 of 7 May and assuming it is agreeable to you I will announce surrender at 9 a.m. Washington time on Tuesday 8 May as recommended by Eisenhower. This is a momentous occasion for the United Nations and the World. I am repeating this message to Prime Minister Churchik. "NATIONAL signed TRUMAN US - SERVICE DICLASSIFIED by authuity of state Dept litto NARS 8-10-72 NL memo to NLT 4-12-73 liticls $8820115/22/14 ROWON Released from the White House Map Room CCM--14 at 0706302 May 1945. Robert W Bogue e Robert W. Bogue Lt. U.S.N.R. for SECRET