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
Sgt Henry William Mortimer, NX26393 - Australian Army Medical Corps A.I.F. 2/10 Fd. Amb.
Pvt Stanley Lewis NX69121 - Australian Infantry A.I.F. 2/30 Bn. - Died on the Thai Burma Railway in 1943
Driver Herbert Armistice Haylock of Duxford Cambridgeshire
Corporal Ronald Francis Shaw - casualty of the atomic bomb
Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu VC
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