In early August 1945, Japan agreed to the Allied terms for ending the war as outlined in the Potsdam Declaration. On September 2nd 1945, aboard the USS Missouri battleship, the Japanese Foreign Minster and Chief of General Staff signed the Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II after six long years.
Get the “V-J Day 2024” decal
Available for this anniversary.
When: From today until September 5th (09:00 GMT).
Task: Play 3 battles using US vehicles at rank III or higher to receive the “V-J Day 2024” decal.
“V-J Day 2024” decal
Additional details:
You must use a minimum of rank III.
Your activity must not be below 70%.
You can complete the task in random battles, except for Enduring Confrontation missions, and [Assault] mode.
Track your progress in the hangar by clicking Nickname → Achievements → Holidays → Victory Over Japan.
You can find the decal in the “Holidays” tab in the Customization menu.
I mean China yes, USSR probably less so, considering they joined the war against Japan on 8th August '45. But if we’re going with the spirit of Allied Powers, they probably should go on there too
My great-grandfather’s contemporary chinese, suffered 35 million casualties in its resistance to Japan, and I was only able to get a United States commemorative decal on this day
besides the big three (US, UK and URSS) the other nations involved do get a lot less attention, it’s a shame considering some of them lost a lot of people
They were keen to end sooner but the allies were demanding unconditional surrender and Japanese wanted assurances the emperor would remain important to Japan.
Funnily enough America were planning to keep the emperor just as Japan wanted but Japan didn’t believe the allies would agree and remained radio silent. Lack of communication lead to 2 x atom bombs killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians.
This is a perspective of it. Commonwealth forces outnumbered Americans in the pacific. For much of the war the Indians alone outnumbered American troops in the pacific.
Indeed… it’s a shame it came down to that, it could have been perfectly avoided with better and clearer communication, but since they refused… At the time, it was deemed that there was no choice.
I may sound ignorant, but I always wondered why they didn’t just drop the first nuke at some random field at the outskirts of Tokio.
Way less casualties if any, and a direct visual display for the Emperor to see first hand.
There is some belief the Americans were also interested in ending the war before Russias planned offensive started (can’t remember the name) and also a chance to flex the bombs and show Russia what the West had as tensions with the soviets were already increasing.
The outskirts of Tokyo were mostly evacuated mainly by students under the age of 12, and dropping an atomic bomb on central Tokyo was pointless because of the fire bombing in March 1945.
Hiroshima and Kokura(changed to Nagasaki because of bad weather) were scheduled for atomic bombing because there had been no large-scale bombing of those cities and they were important to Japan from an industrial and military standpoint.
