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.
At the Museum of Veterans in Vilonia, there is a framed copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. It was a donation to the museum by an old sailor who was there for the proceedings some 80 years ...
It’s Sunday morning, September 2, 1945, and nearly 300 Allied warships and thousands of military troops are gathered in Tokyo Bay. Allied leaders are assembled on the deck of the battleship USS ...