Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Japanese Surrender



On August 6, 1945 the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Japan still did not surrender, so on August 9, 1945  second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Japanese did then surrender on August 15, 1945. The actual signing ceremony, pictured above, was taken on September 2, on board the USS Missouri. 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Collection