Victory over Japan Day
Channel: The U.S. Army
Date: 31/08/2017

Japan had surrendered, Aug. 14. 1945, effectively ending World War II.  Sept. 2, 1945 is the day that Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. 

Gen. Douglas MacArthur then accepted in behalf of the United Nations, declaring: "It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past."

One by one the Allied representatives stepped forward and signed the document that blighted Japan's dream of empire built on bloodshed and tyranny.