Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight ...
NORFOLK, Va. — A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial, paired with a special lecture series on the war’s final weeks in the Pacific.
In 1945, after six years of devastating conflict, World War II was drawing to a close. But it was more than, as historians James Holland and Al Murray write, the muddy tent in Reims or the triumphant ...
Japanese Foreign Minister Namoru Shigemitsu signs surrender terms as Allied officers watch on Sept. 2, 1945, on the USS Missouri moored in Tokyo Bay. (HUM Images/Getty Images) It was — quite possibly ...
April 1944, MacArthur in Australia.--November 1944, MacArthur returns to Philippines.--March 1945, Philippines resume self-government.--August 1945, MacArthur with G.I.'s after Japanese ...
On this Memorial Day, we remember an American soldier who suffered defeat. He's linked in history with an American known for victory. Jonathan Horn wrote a book about both of them, including the ...
Eighty years ago, on August 30, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed unarmed at Atsugi airfield in preparation for the surrender ceremony, which was set to take place on the battleship Missouri on ...
On Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese and the Allies gathered to mark the official end of WWII. The process went smoothly until Col. Lawrence Cosgrave signed his name on the wrong line.
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