[DFG]

[DFG]

20 year old Navy sailor Tony Curtis watched the surrender ceremony from the deck of the submarine tender Proteus about a mile away.

[eldoradude]

My dad was on the USS Gasconade entering Tokyo Bay as the surrender was being signed.

[dfwgator]

Korea is now on the clock!

[poconopundit]

A few decades later, for Tokyo, Japan, and America, MacArthur's wish came true:

“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death, the seas bear only commerce, men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight."

See some remarkable comparison photos -- the city of Tokyo leveled after a firebombing and completely rebuilt.

Drill down on the photos to see full-screen images including several before and shots of scenes in the same location.

[Tell It Right]

September 2, 1945: The day that Japan formalized that they learned the FO of their December 7, 1941 FAFO.

[RandallFlagg]

Imagine...
If this had happened while President Trump was in office,
Some commie judge would rule it illegal and ordered the war to continue.

[bray]

My dad was on a destroyer watching the signing.

[Wuli]

This is the way wars are supposed to end, for us, and why Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan were unfinished wars. Vietnam was a war we lost to the Leftists mass protest movement in the United States, not on the battlefield in Vietnam.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The A-bombs did their job, but the war did not stop. Back in 1968, Okinawa, I learned the US continued to drop conventional HE and Incendiary explosives on Japan clear to the day of surrender.
My father-in-law had a printed copy of the complete surrender documents. Now I have them.

[TTFlyer]

Today’s enemy is domestic. And far, far away from being defeated.

[Campion]

The gentleman in the second row of the Japanese delegation, second from right, in the tophat and tails, was interviewed for the British TV series "World at War".

He said his main thought, while standing on the deck of the Missouri, was that it was insanity for Japan to have gone to war against _this many_ nations.

[Albion Wilde]

“A million eyes seemed to beat on us with the million shafts of a rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire,” recalled Japanese diplomat Toshikazu Kase. “Never have I realized that the glance of glaring eyes could hurt so much. We waited . . . standing in the public gaze like penitent boys awaiting the dreaded schoolmaster.”

It's a day for reverence and thanksgiving. Nevertheless, his words made me remember this very apt toon from just after Trump was elected last November:

[Albion Wilde]

Look at this wounded American troop, whether Army or Navy I do not know. But he looks barely out of childhood. These brave men saved our nation and world.