V J Day Surrender of Japan Terms sent to Tokyo Quisling on trial August 21 1945

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New York Herald Tribune (European Edition)
Original newspaper
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As the name would suggest, 15 August 1945 was the moment that the Allies - that is Britain, the US and other countries that were fighting together - marked victory over Japan.
After days of rumours about it, US President Harry S Truman broke the news at a press conference at the White House at 7pm on 14 August. Later at midnight, Britain's new prime minister Clement Atlee confirmed it, saying: "The last of our enemies is laid low."
The following day, Japan's Emperor Hirohito was heard on the radio for the first time ever when he announced the surrender.
And so 15 August 1945 was officially named as Victory in Japan day and World War Two war was finally over.
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. ... On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri.
About the New York Herald European edition
The newspaper became a mainstay of American expatriate culture in Europe. In Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel, The sun also rises the first thing the novel's protagonist Jake Barnes does on returning from Spain to France is to buy the New York herald from a kiosk in Bayonne and read it at a cafe.
In Jean-Luc Goddard's film Breathless, the female lead character Patricia (played by Jean Sedberg is an American student who sell's the New
York
Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris. Pages from the day's paper can been seen tacked up through the office windows, a tradition that was to continue with then International herald Tribune.