From wiki:
'The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction".'
The Japanese certainly haven’t forgotten https://www.youtube.com/live/Jas7iLs0r2o?feature=shared
Forgotten? More ridiculous words have seldom been written.
Perhaps the words “President Biden” compare.
War in the Pacific was in my opinion the more important war, Germany was already on the rocks as by 1943 the German army was finished as the Battle of Kursk was the turning point. Japan’s Army was mostly intact, what broke the Japanese was the Submarine war and many really bad decisions of the IJ Navy.
A merciful end from a merciful God!
I had two uncles in the Pacific.
They would question the characterization of their time there as a “footnote.”
Korea is truly the “Forgotten War”. Many of those soldiers, wound up fighting in Korea a few years later.
80 years ago today I was in Times Square on VJ Day.
I’m one of those little dots next to the copy of the Statue of Liberty in the picture.
Question for all of the Freeper historians: Why didn’t the US use the chain of Alaskan islands to set up airbases so they could attack the Japanese mainland, instead of island hopping through the meat grinders in the pacific?
They were somewhere around the Panama Canal when the war ended.