Video: 'Us Celebrates Japanese Surrender (1945)'

(Tuesday, August 14, 1945, 7:00 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — “I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government of the unconditional surrender of Japan,” U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced from the White House tonight, sparking a national celebration from San Francisco to New York’s Times Square.

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