50 Pence - Elizabeth II 75th Anniversary of V.E. Day

V.E. Day fell on 8 May 1945, but for the Channel Islands the liberation came a day later — 9 May 1945 — when German forces on Guernsey and Jersey formally surrendered after nearly five years of occupation, the only British territories to have been held by Nazi Germany during the war. Guernsey has marked that date as Liberation Day ever since, giving this anniversary particular local weight rather than the purely ceremonial significance it carries elsewhere in the Commonwealth.