BBC - - ON THIS DAY 2 SEPT
Japanese officials have signed the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war.
In the presence of 50 Allied generals and other officials, the Japanese envoys boarded the American battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the surrender document.
Carl Mydans was aboard the U.S.S. Missouri when the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II.
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Via the old FG thread
Carl Mydans was aboardthe U.S.S. Missouri when the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II. ....remembering one senior Japanese officer in civilian clothes.
"As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent," Mydans recalls. "And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished."
...Mydans was taken prisoner while covering the war, and spent nearly two years in a prison camp in the Philippines. He later returned to take photos of that camp.
