New Vj Twenty-Four Hr Menses Was Sept 2Nd... As Well As 1 Merely Remembered

August 14th was the unconditional surrender, precisely the ceremony was Sept sec on the USS Missouri, ending half dozen years of state of war inwards the Pacific

By 1945, inwards an essay out to intermission Japanese resistance earlier a reason invasion became necessary, the Allies were consistently bombarding Nippon from air in addition to sea, dropping some 100,000 tons of explosives on to a greater extent than than lx Japanese cities in addition to towns betwixt March in addition to July 1945 alone.

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The Potsdam Declaration, issued yesteryear Allied leaders on July 26, 1945, called on Nippon to surrender; if it did, it was promised a peaceful authorities according to “the freely expressed volition of the Japanese people.” If it did not, it would appear upward “prompt in addition to verbalise destruction.” The embattled Japanese authorities inwards Tokyo refused to surrender, in addition to on August half dozen the American B-29 bird Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the metropolis of Hiroshima, killing to a greater extent than than 70,000 people in addition to destroying a 5-square-mile expanse of the city. Three days later, the USA dropped a instant atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing some other 40,000.

Of the xvi 1000000 Americans who served inwards World War II, to a greater extent than than 400,000 died during the war. At the goal of the war, at that topographic point were about 79,000 Americans unaccounted for, 48,103 inwards the Pacific state of war zone.

This number included those buried amongst laurels every bit unknowns, officially buried at sea, lost at sea, in addition to missing inwards action. Today, to a greater extent than than 73,000 Americans stay unaccounted for from WWII.

America thence took half dozen years to locate all known leads to buried or missing American military, locating in addition to identifying 280,000 of the approx 400,000 dead

Then from 1951 to 1976 some other 200 were located

From 1976 to 2003 some other 346 were located, in addition to after 2003, some other 300 were located

In 2003, historians at the Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) began to railroad train a comprehensive database of WWII service members whose remains were non recovered or identified after the war. This database was a pregnant pace inwards creating a comprehensive conception to inquiry WWII missing personnel.
VE Day is May 8th

http://www.dpaa.mil/Our-Missing/World-War-II/
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day
https://www.pacificwrecks.com/mia/usa/index.html

Donna Esposito, who plant at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum inwards upstate Glenville, visited Guadalcanal inwards the Solomon Islands this throttle in addition to was approached yesteryear a local homo who knew of WWII domestic dog tags in addition to bones constitute along a nearby jungle trail. The homo asked if Esposito could help discovery relatives of the homo named on the tags: Pfc. Dale W. Ross.

After she returned home, Esposito constitute that Ross had nieces in addition to nephews withal living inwards Ashland, Oregon. H5N1 niece in addition to a nephew were given his domestic dog tags in addition to a handbag containing the skeletal remains.

Assigned to the Army's 25th Infantry Division, he was listed every bit MIA inwards Jan 1943, during the in conclusion weeks of the Guadalcanal campaign. He was in conclusion seen inwards an surface area that saw heavy fighting about a Japanese-held hilltop.

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