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VJ Day 2025: How to commemorate the end of the Second World War in London
The annual Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) celebration marks the date Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies. On August 15, ...
New ocean expedition captures images of 13 WWII shipwrecks from major naval battles
The USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese “Long Lance” torpedo during the November 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, off the coast of Guadalcanal. The powerful explosion sheared off nearly a third of ...
80th anniversary: A look at the memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another ...
80 Years Ago, Nuclear Annihilation Came to Japan
On Aug. 15, Japan surrendered. The Japanese empire’s bloody march through Asia was over. But the impact on civilians lingered ...
When US and Japanese troops stopped fighting to talk, eat and pray together
In his report, Clark wrote that Takeda “readily agreed” and, as US and Japanese soldiers knelt together by the shore in ...