People think WW2 ended with the signing at Pearl harbor in 1945, but the Japanese troops in China didnt get the message that the war was over , I have a document my dad got at the surrender ceremony of the Japanese troops in China months after the surrender in Pearl Harbor
Japanese holdouts were everywhere; the last one surrendered in the 1970s. I recently saw where some troops stationed on Guam after the war lived in customized Higgins boats because the Japanese were constantly fighting Americans months after the surrender.
“People think WW2 ended with the signing at Pearl harbor in 1945”,
???? Don’t you mean On the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay?
” I didn’t realize they took Guadalcanal 3 years before Okinawa”
Lots of preparations for each invasion, what with the ships, supplies, and thousands of miles of ocean.
My father was part of the Guadalcanal operation, then the retaking of Guam, and finally Okinawa. Did not think to ask him back when what they had him doing in between those.