Spot on.
Heard last night MacArthur delayed the official surrender on The USS Missouri to allow time for Allied ships to enter Tokyo Bay
Image the deserved humiliatIon of those creepy diminutive Japs as thousands of victorious USN guys looked on
A time machine I would’ve loved to have been there
John McCain’s grandfather, Admiral John S. McCain was there.
He was assigned to MacArthur, although Wikipedia says Halsey insisted he be at the signing.
He died days later of a heart attack back in the US.
Some of those ships were the battleships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor. My dad was on USS West Virginia, anchored in Tokyo Bay when Dai Nippon threw in the towel.
To the victor goes the spoils.
As a young child, my mother lived in Honolulu. The family was there on December 7, 1941, she remembers the Japanese planes flying over her house. She watched World War 2 start.
75 years ago, my BFF's dad was a young sailor aboard the USS Missouri, he watched WW2 end.
The USN & USAF had everything up in the air over Tokyo Bay in a show of force as well.
