This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. On September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Empire of Japan formally surrendered, ...

ABC7 is saluting WWII veteran Don Fosburg, who was on the USS Missouri 75 years ago when the Japanese formally surrendered to end the war. LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- He's a 94-year-old veteran with ...

Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight ...

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY A day of profound global significance—the formal end of World War II—occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan officially surrendered in what ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan surrendered, launching an era of alliances and trade. Now, with memories of the war fading, so is the consensus on how to avoid a repeat.

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-two World War II Veterans will be present as the 80th Commemoration of the End of World War II kicks off at Pearl Harbor on Saturday, August ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese and the Allies gathered to mark the official end of WWII. The process went smoothly until Col. Lawrence Cosgrave signed his name on the wrong line.

A day of profound global significance — the formal end of World War II — occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan officially surrendered in what signaled a hard-won ...