Photo: Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, 2 September 1945. Credit: Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Japan Surrendered, Ending WWII

By Tony Pettinato on September 2, 2020

An article about the formal surrender ceremony of Japan in Tokyo Bay on the deck of the U.S. battleship Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending WWII... (Read More)

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