Welcome to the old film time of the book, this group photo shared by all readers and friends today is from the old photos of the surrender of the Japanese army at the end of World War II. Through this set of old photographs, we can look back at the images that have survived from this period of history. World War II entered 1945, the end of fascist aggression had arrived, and Nazi Germany announced its surrender after the Battle of Berlin in May of that year in the European theater. The Japanese fascists also began to face the shattering of the absolute defensive circle, and the homeland faced the threat of being bombed at all times.
After the end of May of that year, the collapse of Japanese fascism was only a matter of time, but due to the stubbornness of the Japanese militarists, they lost one after another in the Pacific War and still claimed to be completely crushed. As a result of this move, the U.S. military increased the scale and frequency of bombing tokyo, and three-quarters of the entire urban area of Tokyo became a ruin.
Then the Battle of Okinawa ended, in which the Americans paid more casualties than they expected in order to capture Okinawa, and since then the Americans have abandoned the plan to land on the Japanese mainland to force the Japanese army to surrender completely.
In August of that year, U.S. troops dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. When powerful atomic bombs exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan lost the courage to continue its stubborn resistance, and on August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced its surrender by radio to the Japanese people.
After the Japanese Emperor announced his surrender, Japanese troops outside the mainland began to lay down their arms and surrender to the Allies. This set of photographs was taken during the surrender of the Japanese army at the end of August 1945. At this time, the Japanese troops lost their stubborn crazy appearance, and in the face of the Allied troops, the Japanese soldiers looked humble and stood straight.
Photograph taken in late August 1945, after the surrender of the Japanese mainland was announced, the remnants of japanese troops in the Pacific Islands surrendered to U.S. forces. The japanese saber captured by the American soldiers in the photo is piled up on the entire pickup truck.
The photo was taken on September 2, 1945, when japanese surrender representatives boarded the US warship USS Missouri, and they would formally sign the instrument of surrender, which meant that World War II was completely over, the invaders were finally overthrown, and justice was finally invincible.
Photographed on September 2, 1945, the Japanese surrender representative signed the instrument of surrender, and standing in front of the signing table was the five-star American general MacArthur, after whom MacArthur would become the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in Japan.