Eighty years ago today on Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered to the Allied Powers, bringing an end to World War II.

On 1945, Japan officially surrendered to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, marking the end of World War II. The deadliest war in history was over. Also on this day in 1666, the Great ...

Gaylon Wilson, a Knoxville native and World War II Navy veteran, was just 19 when he stood aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo ...

Less than a week later, Japan announced its surrender on Aug. 14, 1945. Japan formally surrendered in writing on Sept. 2, 1945, officially ending World War II.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Sept. 2, 1945, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz officiated the ...

About two dozen people gathered at a burial ground in Japan for a service that coincided with Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945.

And it is exactly 70 years ago Wednesday, on Sept. 2, 1945, that 11 men representing Japan arrived aboard the battleship Missouri to surrender their country.

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

On VJ Day on 15 August, she and her husband laid a wreath on Alfonso's behalf at the Burma Star Association memorial in Colchester's Castle Park. Speaking shortly afterwards, Alfonso's son-in-law said ...

Eighty years ago today, on Sept. 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Allied powers gathered to witness the surrender of Imperial Japan, ending World War II.

August 6, 1945 marked the beginning of the end of World War II when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima *** short time ago, an American airplane dropped one ...

Less than a week later, Japan announced its surrender on Aug. 14, 1945. Japan formally surrendered in writing on Sept. 2, 1945, officially ending World War II.