End of WWII
On this date, 1945, Truman received the communication from the Japanese government indicating the acceptance of the allies' surrender terms thus ending the war. Of course, the formal (MacArthur) proceedings did not occur until September.
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I love the fact that the US made the Japanese come aboard the USS Missouri for the very well publicized signing of surrender. I know it was about three weeks after Japan accepted the terms of surrender
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Except that it should have been the emperor required to come aboard and sign, not some minor, nobody official. The emperor, since he was not to be charged with war crimes, should have at least been humiliated.
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Ambrose: 30069332477851/comments/30069347082395
Except that it should have been the emperor required to come aboard and sign, not some minor, nobody official. The emperor, since he was not to be charged with war crimes, should have at least been humiliated.
I agree, the emperor should have been made to be a part of the signing and not just sending his foreign minister and the general who was chief of the army
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This photo says it all...
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I would say he was seriously humiliated twice before the signing.
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all it took was a fat man and a little boy
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and a overpowering russian attack
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Dropping the Bombs saved a lot of Lives on both sides.
My Dad was in the Pacific and was one of the 1st of the Occupying Forces on the Japanese mainland.
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We should have shot them and executed the emperor, they didn't realize how good they had it compared to what they would have done to us if the tables had been turned.
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..."over powering Russian attack"?? ...Russia didn't declare war on the Japs in China until the Fall of 1945...the Emperor accepted our terms of surrender before that, like this date in 1945...going out on a limb here, but I'd say Russia didn't do squat to help us defeat the Japs...
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Russia had a score to settle with Japan. I forget what the conflict was called but it was ended with the treaty of port Arthur. If the Russians would have gotten there, it would have been bad for the Japanese and the Russians would still be there today.
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Ambrose: 30069332477851/comments/30069347082395
Except that it should have been the emperor required to come aboard and sign, not some minor, nobody official. The emperor, since he was not to be charged with war crimes, should have at least been humiliated.
And it should have been on the USS Enterprise and not a ship that did little other than being named for the home state of the petty little boy in the White House at the time.
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