VJ Day
VJ (Victory over Japan) Day was announced on 15 August 1945 bringing the Second World War to an end. The formal surrender had been signed a few weeks earlier on the decks of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September. Image © IWM (EA 75893)
“The War is over…those four words have for the Queen and myself the same significance – simple yet immense – that they have for you. Our hearts are overflowing.”
KING GEORGE VI, 15 AUGUST 1945
Private Frank Charles McGuire, C/28713, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Corporal Douglas James Alexander 3064352, 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots
Major Morris Latham, 3rd Bn., 1st King George V’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Maluan Regiment)
Lieutenant William Basil Weston - 'The Final Supreme Self-Sacrifice'
Lieutenant Claud Raymond - 'Gallantry Despite Mortal Wounds'
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