Victory over Japan Day, also known as VJ Day, is the day Japan surrendered in World War II Aug 15,1945

Victory over Japan Day, also known as VJ Day, is the day Japan surrendered in World War II

Allied Forces marked the announcement, which signalled the end of the war, with celebrations on the streets of their capital cities. Japanese soldiers subsequently surrendered their swords to British forces. The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sep 2,1945

Thousands of people thronged into Trafalgar Square, in London, on Aug. 15, 1945, celebrating V-J Day

 

Thousands jammed New York's Times Square after Pres. Harry Truman announced Japan's unconditional surrender, Aug. 14, 1945.

 

 U.S. President Harry S. Truman stands at his desk during a news conference in the White House in Washington announcing the Japanese surrender, officially signaling the war's end.

Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the unconditional surrender papers for Emperor Hirohito, thus committing Japan to accept the Potsdam Declaration, Aug. 14, 1945.