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tommytalldog
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Date Posted：02/09/2021 08:11:03Copy HTML September 2, 1945 - VJ Day On this date formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Representatives from the Allied Nations & the Empire of Japan signed the unconditional surrender ending hostilities in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The Japanese government had agreed to surrender without qualifications on August 14, 1945 & now it was official. That was 76 years ago today & now the major combatants in WWII are allies & trading partners. Live respected, die regretted
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：02/09/2021 08:31:20Copy HTML Prince Philip who died in April was there. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：02/09/2021 09:39:50Copy HTML Prince Philip who died in April was there. Yes, as was Gen. Percival for the Brits & there must have been many others. |
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PBA-3rd-1949
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：04/09/2021 01:21:26Copy HTML Prince Philip who died in April was there. Yes, as was Gen. Percival for the Brits & there must have been many others. Should have had all the survivors of the Japanese camps there sitting, in the front row. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：04/09/2021 07:24:45Copy HTML Prince Philip who died in April was there. Yes, as was Gen. Percival for the Brits & there must have been many others. Should have had all the survivors of the Japanese camps there sitting, in the front row. What did police chief Martin Brody famously say? We need a bigger boat. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：04/09/2021 08:56:52Copy HTML Under terms of "unconditional surrender", does that mean that everything is available to the victor in terms of war information, planning strategies, photographs, top secret memos, and that sort of thing?
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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majorshrapnel
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：06/09/2021 06:32:24Copy HTML Under terms of "unconditional surrender", does that mean that everything is available to the victor in terms of war information, planning strategies, photographs, top secret memos, and that sort of thing? I should think it’s exactly what it says on the tin, the victor has total control. Unconditional surrender to the US bares no resemblance to unconditional surrender to Japan though, the former bathes you in riches, the latter murders you. |
