Sujet
Japan: Post World War II, uniformed Japanese bow to their American conquerors. On 6 August and 9 August, 1945, the USA d
Légende
Japan: Post World War II, uniformed Japanese bow to their American conquerors. On 6 August and 9 August, 1945, the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki respectively. More than 200,000 people died as a direct result of these two bombings, during which the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan.br/br/ Japan surrendered on 15 August, 1945 and a formal Instrument of Surrender was signed on 2 September, 1945, on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The surrender was accepted by Gen Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander, with representatives of each Allied nation, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu. A separate surrender ceremony between Japan and China was held in Nanking on 9 September, Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
Info+
IMAGO/CPA Media
Date
01 janv. 1945
Crédit
Photo12/Imago
Notre référence
MGO25A08_063
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
4,4Mo (208,4Ko) / 49,1cm x 38,8cm / 1393 x 1101 (72dpi)