WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama marked Friday the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany by calling the victorious Allied troops a generation that saved the world.

Obama moved up his traditional weekend radio address to coincide with the anniversary. It will be celebrated in Washington with vintage US warplanes that flew in the war roaring over downtown for 45 minutes.

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