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(Sunday, September 2, 1945, 9:03-9:07 a.m. Japan Standard Time; during World War II) — Japan surrendered formally and unconditionally to the Allies today in a twenty-minute ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay which ended just as the sun burst through low-hanging clouds as a shining symbol to a ravaged world now done with war.

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U.S. President Harry S. Truman also declared today to be V-J Day, but noted that “It is not yet the day for the formal proclamation of the end of the war nor of the cessation of hostilities.”

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