Step back in time to the dramatic morning of August 15, 1945—just as the Japanese Emperor’s surrender speech was about to echo across the airwaves. While the world believed World War II was ending, ...

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On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...