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JAPAN GIVES UP

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 JAPAN GIVES UP
 VIE 1ananese at first nlinimized the bombs effect
 but stopped all traffic to Hiroshima Later they noJnced the Americans as 'barbarlans linen ey announced the damage as @conslderaDle, The war went on A carrier task force hit Shang- Ii Other carrier planes hit Wake Island More an 300 Liberators, Mitchells and Invaders fre- mbed the city of Kagoshlma on kyusnn super dresses struck Yawata- s3 Dn the evening of August 8, two days after the atom bomb fell the Soviet Union declared war amst Japan effective the next day.
 Hardly had the Japanese received the news when other atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaln on ushu The Third Fleet went back to shelllng nsbu Soviet troops began sliclng into Manchuria Japan still had perhaps two million troops on home islands, another million in ManchuTla and ,rea: almost million in China perhaps 7O0,oOo ore in Formosa Indo-China Thailand. Malaga Netherlands East Indies and by passed points But she no longer had d navy All she could put sea were two light carriers, two cruisers, 26 de- overs and g submarines She had n9 alr force could put up good fight
 apan had had enough.
 )n Friday August lD the Japanese announced august wish of His Majesty to restore the gen
 peaeer and a willingness to accept the terms 'otsdam if they would not prejudice the preToga- Is of His Majesty as sovereign ruler.
 he Allies conferred The next day the Japanese
 their answer: Unconditional Surrender. Elm Dr Hitohito would be retained to make the sur fer effective but he would be subject to the ed command and he would remain only so long he Allies permitted him to, or until the Japanese expressed their choice in free election or three days the world waited Finally on Tues August IA at P M President Truman called srnen to announce that Japan had agreed to ender internationally
 he kamilaze kept pecklng al Halseys fleet Planes cked US reconnaIssanoe aircraft over Tokyo stance continued in MaDchuTia, China and In neo Then as pemofe enemy commanders goi d of the surrender war slowed down to a stop ut there was stia 1such waiting At first the Japa-
 sand they could not understand the orders of eral MacA4thur named Allied occupation chle1 hoons around Tokyo delayed the final signing alsey's fleet moved up ito Sagami Bay, and then, r airborne troops landed at Atsagi airport near yo steamed into Tokyo Bay More troops came
 take harbor forts near Tokyo With has beach |" in hand MacArthur stepped on enemy soil rohjtos representatdue- Foreign Minister Ma h Shigenitsu- the UaSlS. Missouri on day, September 9, a945, and there signed away ms army navy and air foToe and all her lii- sn gains in 50 years of aggression.
 that way World War III ended 1t had cost the d perhaps 50,0O0D00 casualties and millions of ITS in destruction AaheTaca alone had lost more
 quarter of a million killed-snore than a mil in total war casualties
 1t perhaps the most terrifying bloodshed m man shistory had taught the world something. Never re in mankinds history, it seemed, were the ns of the world so determined to prevent such ocaust from happening again The great powers united to wipe out the aggressors On Septen- E, g. 1945 they were united to wipe out war
 the annals of the organization they had erected eserve this unity-the United Nations story future would be written.