Oddball | 02 Sep 2015 7:06 a.m. PST |
70 years since Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in Tokyo Bay. I will think of my late Dad today. My late Dad was a Pacific veteran and was in a military hospital in the States when victory came. Thank you to all the W.W. II vets, living and passed, that saved the world in those dark days. |
JimDuncanUK | 02 Sep 2015 7:36 a.m. PST |
No mention of it today, so far, on our main UK news channel. It was mentioned a few days ago though. |
Jemima Fawr | 02 Sep 2015 7:57 a.m. PST |
That's because VJ Day is 15 August. |
JimDuncanUK | 02 Sep 2015 8:17 a.m. PST |
That's right, the signing of the surrender document was 2nd September. |
Oddball | 02 Sep 2015 8:20 a.m. PST |
Here's the link, link The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II. I guess Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione was surprised to find out the war had ended 3 days earlier when he was killed over Japan. August 15 is the official V-J Day for the UK, while the official U.S. commemoration is September 2. |
Oddball | 02 Sep 2015 8:29 a.m. PST |
I remember asking my Dad on the 50th annv. of Pearl Harbor where he was when he heard the news. He thought for awhile and said, "I don't remember, but I can tell you right where I was when I heard I got drafted". For the end of the war, he remembered being in a hospital bed in Chicago. Everybody that could left to celebrate in the streets, the only ones left were those that couldn't leave their beds, like him. |
Skarper | 02 Sep 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
Independence day here in Vietnam. 70 years. Fireworks, parades. Flags out and day off as per usual… |
Zargon | 02 Sep 2015 9:59 a.m. PST |
Happy? More like relief as to an end to the carnage. |
ThePeninsularWarin15mm | 02 Sep 2015 10:23 a.m. PST |
All interesting, but you're all quite wrong. The legal end of active hostilities is December 31, 1946 (Per Federal Code of Regulations 3.2(d)). The Peace Treaty of San Francisco (Which legally ended the war) was signed September 8, 1951 and went into effect on April 28, 1952. All perfectly verifiable and indisputable. The silly ceremony you're all citing is not a legally recognized ceremony, thus the following laws and treaty. |
Patrick Sexton | 02 Sep 2015 7:01 p.m. PST |
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Skarper | 02 Sep 2015 11:58 p.m. PST |
Interesting. But a bit like telling folks that Jan 1st 2000 was not the start of the 21st century… |
Lou from BSM | 03 Sep 2015 4:24 a.m. PST |
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skinkmasterreturns | 03 Sep 2015 4:33 a.m. PST |
I'm taking care of 2 gentlemen right now that were both in the Pacific at the end of the war.One was a fighter pilot and the other in the submarine service. I always like to ask my patients about their service time when they're willing/able to talk about it. |
batesmotel34 | 03 Sep 2015 7:05 a.m. PST |
Rhode Island is the one state in the US that still observes VJ Day as a state holiday. It's currently the second Monday in August but was originally Augst 15th, not September 2nd. (Trivia from attending grad school in Rhode Island.) Chris |
Martin Rapier | 03 Sep 2015 11:38 p.m. PST |
We just aren't stuck on paperwork like our transatlantic cousins. If wars ended when peace treaties are signed, then iirc we are still at war with Imperial Russia. |