Thoughts of the day Peace was declared Wednesday 15 August 1945

Canadian sailors, VJ (Victory over Japan) day, Wellington, 15 August 1945

Canadian sailors, VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, Wellington, 15 August, 1945

The Emperor Hirohito of Japan, (Evening Post, 11 August 1945)

The Gambia bombarding Kamaishi in Japan, August 1945

Japanese shipping in the Saigon River blasted by carrier-borne aircraft. (Evening Post, 15 August 1945)

Ceremonial Festival for the Day of Proclaiming the Japanese Constituition

Ceremonial Festival for the Day of Proclaiming the Japanese Constituition

Ceremonial Festival for the Day of Proclaiming the Japanese Constituition

Ministers of the Two Nations, Japan and China, Settle the Peace Agreement

Hiroshima's Peace Park - folded paper offerings carrying prayers for victims of the 1945 atomic bomb (Japan)

Statue of a Saint That Was Beheaded by the Atomic Explosion, 1945, Nagasaki

A Japanese submarine ivith a plane on its deck in front of the conning tower. (Evening Post, 18 August 1945)

THE EMPEROR AND EMPRKSS OF JAPAN, COUNT SERGIUS WITTE, The Russian Peace Plenipotentiary. (Otago Witness, 0...

First issue of the socialistic paper The Heimin Shimbun 1907, January 15

NEW ZEALAND CELEBRATES THE PEACE Thanksgiving, revelry and rejoicing began throughout the Dominion last Wedn...

Morale conditions affecting public peace: Telegram sent to the Director of Police Bureau from governor of Tottori Prefecture, 23 August 1945. Report No. 14h(50)(c), USSBS Index Section 2

Report of Operations of Task Group 38.1 against the Japanese Empire 1 July 1945 to 15 August 1945 Report No. 2-d(2): Task Group 38.1, USSBS Index Section 7

Listing of Japanese steel merchant ships over 100 tons at the end of the war, 15 August 1945(damaged survivors only). Report No. 54b(31), USSBS Index Section 2

Report of Actions during the Period 1 July to 15 August 1945 Report No. 2-d(24): USS Cowpens, USSBS Index Section 7

Japanese shipping in the Saigon River blasted by carrier-borne aircraft. (Evening Post, 16 August 1945)

Chinese peasants, after the capture of the Canton area by Japanese troops, continue their farming in peace. ...

New Zealand tanks in ruins of Cassino the day it was taken by 8th Army, Italy, World War II - Photograph tak...

Scene in – the Japanese-Premier's official residence in Tokia when the treaty of peace between France and Th...

Action Re-port - Aircraft Strikes against the enemy: Final Attacks on the Home Islands of the Japanese Empire, 2 July through 15 August 1945 Report No. 2-d(15): USS Belleau Wood, USSBS Index Section 7