Japanese representatives signed the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri off Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, to officially end World War II. China and Russia commemorate Sept. 3 as the ...
Japanese germ-warfare detachments during World War II not only committed crimes against the Chinese but also undertook attempts to conduct biological ...
The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.
The bomb was dropped to force a quick Japanese surrender. American commanders said ... surprising things key people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the ...
Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.