With the Japanese surrender at hand, the world’s attention centered on the admiral’s flagship, the USS Missouri, chosen as ...

Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the ...

For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated. There was no word for "surrender" in the Japanese dictionary. And although the Japanese government never believed it could defeat the United States ...

The Japanese also located artillery in Cavite on the other side of the Manila Bay. Corregidor now faced a deadly artillery crossfire for 27 days. By May 5 and 6, 1942, General Wainwright accepted ...

U.S. air raids continued against Japan until the day of its surrender in the Pacific War because Tokyo was reluctant to accept the Potsdam Declaration over the emperor’s status, according to ...

It is 26 July, 1945. For four years, America has been at war with Japan. President Truman issues the enemy an ultimatum: surrender unconditionally or face “prompt and utter destruction.” ...

Also, because of your leaders' refusal to accept the surrender declaration that would enable Japan to honorably end this useless war, we have employed our atomic bomb. A single one of our newly ...

Tokyo, Hiroshimaand the Surrender of JapanRICHARD OVERY(ALLEN LANE, 224 PP, £25)tablet bookshop price 22.50 • tel 020 7799 ...

Russia will spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region if Kyiv tells them to surrender, President ...

The capture of Manila didn't end the fighting, which continued in the hinterlands of Luzon until the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. Casualties on both sides were staggering. About 230,000 ...

Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is published to mark the 80th anniversary of the terrible events of that time.