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Archive - September 2nd 2020, 75th Anniversary of V-J Day 

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75 years ago, on September 2nd 1945, Japan formally surrendered to Allied forces on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, officially ending the Second World War.
The initial announcement of the surrender was made on August 15th, less than one week after the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, and triggered widespread, multi-day celebrations in Allied cities. 

George Rodger 1941

BURMA (Myanmar). Mingladon Air Field, near Rangoon (Yangon).... 

George Rodger 1942

BURMA (Myanmar). Mingladon Air field, near Rangoon (Yangon).... 

George Rodger 1941

BURMA (Myanmar). Mingladon Airfield, near Rangoon (Yangon). World... 

George Rodger 1941

BURMA. Toungoo front. World War II. 1942. British General "Vinegar... 

George Rodger 1941

BURMA. Pynmana. World War II. Japanese planes bomb the village.... 

George Rodger 1941

BURMA. Toungoo front. World War II. 1942. Chinese troops moving... 

George Rodger 1942

BURMA. Emergency hospital run by Doctor Seagrove set up in a... 

George Rodger 1942

BURMA (Myanmar) Mingladon Air Field, near Rangoon (Yangon). Mathew... 

George Rodger 1942

BURMA. Schwegyin. Indian Army at Schwegyin. Indian army troops... 

George Rodger 1941

BURMA. Schwegyin. 1942. Prior to the battle resulting in the... 

George Rodger 1941

Burma. Rangoon. World War II. Night scene in the suburbs where... 

George Rodger 1942

BURMA. Maymyo. 1942. CHIANG Kai-Shek and Madame CHIANG of China... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. Between October 26, 1943 and December 9, 1943.... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. 1943. USS Saratoga.

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. November 5th, 1943 on board the US aircraft carrier... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. Between October 26th, 1943 and December 9th, 1943.... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. Between October 26th, 1943 and December 9th, 1943.... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. Between October 26th, 1943 and December 9th, 1943.... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. Between October 26, 1943 and December 9, 1943.... 

Wayne Miller 1943

SOUTH PACIFIC. Between October 26, 1943 and December 9, 1943.... 

Wayne Miller 1943

USA. Norman, Oklahoma. February/March, 1943. W.A.V.E.S. (Women... 

Wayne Miller 1943

USA. Norman, Oklahoma. February/March, 1943. W.A.V.E.S. (Women... 

Wayne Miller 1944

PHILIPPINES. 1944. Men on board a US Patrol Torpedo (P.T) boat.... 

Wayne Miller 1944

PHILIPPINES. 1944. Inter-island boat set on fire by a US Patrol... 

Wayne Miller 1944

PHILIPPINES. 1944. Sweeping spent bullet-casings off of the deck... 

Wayne Miller 1944

PHILIPPINES. 1944. Treating wounded sailors.

Wayne Miller 1944

PHILIPPINES. 1944. US Navy ships firing anti-aircraft guns. ... 

Wayne Miller 1945

GUAM. 1945. Sailors assigned to work as laborers at the US Naval... 

Wayne Miller 1945

GUAM. 1945. Sailors assigned to work as laborers at the US Naval... 

Wayne Miller 1945

GUAM. 1945. Sailors assigned to work as laborers at the US Naval... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. The epicenter of the atomic... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Destruction caused by the... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Destruction caused by the... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Center of atomic bomb blast.... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. A woman holds her child... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Marine Corporal Leopold... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Japanese doctor in the operating room.... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Victims of the atomic blast are treated... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Victims of the atomic blast are treated... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Yokohama. September 4, 1945.

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Japanese soldiers and civilians... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN.Tokyo.August 1945.Commander Roger SIMPSON (center) of Task... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1951

JAPAN. Town of Hiroshima. Memorial for the victims of the atomic... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1951

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1951. 

Werner Bischof Estate 1951

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1951. A victim of the Hiroshima atomic explosion.... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. September 8, 1945
Japanese attend the Shinto (memorial)... 

Elliott Erwitt 1970

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1970. 

Thomas Dworzak 2015

MYANMAR, (Burma), Yangon ( Rangoon) , 2015/5. Taukkyan British... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2013

MYANMAR. Taukkyan Commonwealth war memorial. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2013

MYANMAR. Taukkyan Commonwealth war memorial. 

Moises Saman 2017

Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. December,... 

Peter Marlow 2000

Japan. Hiroshima. A model of the uranium packed atomic bomb dropped... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1995

JAPAN. 1995. A wristwatch, now preserved in the A bomb Museum,... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2005

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Hideo Kimura stands where he was when he... 

Martin Parr 2013

JAPAN. Hiroshoma. Tourism. 2013. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2006

JAPAN. Okinawa. 2006. Cornerstone of Peace, Peace Memeorial Park.... 

Peter Marlow 2000

Japan. Hiroshima. Mangled bicycle in The Memorial Museum. 2000.... 

Peter Marlow 2000

JAPAN. Hiroshima. A newspaper declaring the surrender of the... 

Thomas Dworzak 2018

JAPAN. 2018.
Yushukan military museum and shrine, Tokyo. 

Thomas Dworzak 2018

JAPAN. 2018.
Yushukan military museum and shrine, Russo-Japanese... 
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