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US Army Ground Liaison Officer Maj Mortimer H Jordan, left, Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada, center, and interpreter Sgt Charles T Imai provide a briefing for the 1st Marine Air Wing fighter and bomber pilots, Aug 9, 1945	US Army Ground Liaison Officer Maj Mortimer Jordan, left, Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada, center, and interpreter Sgt Charles Imai provide a briefing for fighter and bomber pilots of the 1st Marine Air Wing, Aug 9, 1945

USMC 2Lt Gordon Growden, combat correspondent, interviews Japanese POW 2Lt Minoru Wada prior to a bombing mission against the prisoner’s former headquarters, Zamboanga, Mindanao, Aug 9, 1945	Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, Aug 1945

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, Aug 1945	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz USN (left) and Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser RN aboard Fraser’s flagship, HMS Duke of York, at Guam as Fraser invested Nimitz as a Knight Grand Cross of the British Order of the Bath, 10 Aug 1945.

Henry Stimson arriving at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945	Henry Stimson at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2

Henry Stimson at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2	Soldiers at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France displayed their copies of Paris Post special edition announcing Japanese surrender, 10 Aug 1945

Soviet troops entering Dalian, Liaoning, China on T-34-85 medium tanks, Aug 1945	Survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 10 Aug 1945

US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 5	US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 5

US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 3 of 5	US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 4 of 5

US President Harry Truman with his cabinet, White House, Washington DC, United States, 10 Aug 1945, photo 5 of 5	USAAF aerial photograph of RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 10 Aug 1945.

Admiral William Halsey aboard his flagship USS Missouri upon hearing the news that Japan offered to surrender, 11 Aug 1945.	Kikka prototype jet on its second test flight, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, 11 Aug 1945