On September 2, 1945, a signing ceremony was held on the USS Missouri, just off the coast of Tokyo, Japan, to declare the ...

The war lasted six years. Millions died; entire cities were nuked and destroyed. The end to it all took just 23 minutes. On the morning of September 2, 1945, the battleship USS Missouri lay anchored ...

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It came as a surprise to young Navy officer Lt. John Bremyer on Aug. 23, 1945 that he was suddenly tasked with delivering a special American flag 9,000 miles away. After Japan expressed the desire to ...

Herb Kappel, 99, has seen it all. Serving in the Navy at age 18, he fought in the Pacific Theater, taking down kamikaze planes and eventually witnessing Japan's surrender, marking the end of WWII.

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Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II. The national ceremony at Tokyo’s Budokan hall begins at ...

TOKYO (AP) — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about ...