9/7/1945 Missouri departed from Tokyo Bay 9/13/1945 Missouri arrives at Guam, brought on stores and over 400 veteran passengers and unloaded excess supplies. 9/15/1945 Missouri underway from Guam, homeward bound via Pearl Harbor, unescorted. 9/20/1945 Missouri arrives...
Plan of the Day, September 2 1945 Deck Log, September 2 1945 “At 0700, over 170 newsmen and cameramen boarded Missouri from destroyer Buchanan. For an hour high ranking military officials from all the Allied Powers boarded Missouri from other destroyers and...
President Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. Japan accepted the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration and agreed to surrender. At 0540, after Admiral Halsey received word from Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief...
First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Honshu killing 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. Three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the US exploded a second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Kyushu killing an estimated 74,000...
