Those who lived it will never forget what they were doing 60 years ago this month, on the day Japan admitted defeat. For Americans, it was wild celebration in the streets of cities large and small. For Deli Brink Bloembergen, then 16, it was staring at a plane circling the prison camp where she and other Dutch civilians had been held by the Japanese, in what is now known as Indonesia. "A small plane with a red, white and blue circle flew low over our heads," says Bloembergen. Two men in the see-through cockpit made the "victory" sign. The war...