#vj day

[eraserdude6226]

Just something to think about this Friday morning-8/15/25

Today is the 80th anniversary of VJ day - generally recognized as the end of hostilities in World War II. Thank you to the greatest generation for fighting ... And dying ... for us!!

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Outis + Penelope wip

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

A crowd gathered in Times Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan in the Second World War, August 14, 1945.

Photo: Science Source/Fine Art America

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Anton Lesser at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.

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Two sailors celebrating the end of WWII, 1945.

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Two Sailors in San Francisco sleeping off their V.J. Day celebration. August 1945.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.

The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made — 15 August 1945 in Japan, and because of time zone differences, 14 August 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to 2 September 1945, when the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War II.