at General Eisenhower's headquarters,General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command and of Grand Admiral Doenitz, the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land,sea and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

Rumsfeld and Franks spoke at a news conference Tuesday at Central Command headquarters near Tampa, Florida.

CNN: U.S. hunts bin Laden near Jalalabad, Kandahar

Hazel Gregory was 18 in 1940 and working as a plotter at the Headquarters of Fighter Command in Uxbridge.

BBC: Remembering the Battle of Britain

There is no autonomous operational European command headquarters, because the British do not want one, and no money for extravagant institution-building.

ECONOMIST: France and NATO