P121 CJEFAX 121 Thu 17 Aug 19:18/28 1/5 HISTORY JAPAN FIGHTS ON AS GERMANY DEFEATED On 7 May 1945 the German High Command signed the unconditional surrender of all German armed forces. Victory in Europe Day was officially celebrated the following day, and for most people, six years of horror and hardship were finally at an end. But for many others, peace would not conj for three long months. The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces fought on in the Far East, despite the fall of their Nazi allies. Home 110 Politics 130 World 160 Attlee Front Line Front 2 SurrenderP121 CEEFAX 121 Thu 17 Aug 19:16/28 2/5 HISTORY FIERCE FIGHTING AS ALLIES ADVANCE Allied bombers launched almost continuous attacks against the Japanese homeland between May and August 1945. Japan had lost her air superiority, but her ground troops still fought intense and bitter battles to try to slow the Allied advance. Many islands, such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa, were only captured when vjrtublly the last Japanese was dead. But njithjr her soldiers' fear of capture nor fanaticism could save Japan's imperialist ambitions. Attlee Front Line Front 2 SurrenderP121 CEEFAX 121 Thu 17 Aug 19:15/53 3/5 HISTORY WBSHINGTON CONSIDERS NUCLEAR OPTION Emperor Hirohito urged his staff to seek a diplomatic peace, but Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki refused and an invasion sjemjd the only option. But US forces had taken the island of Okinbwa in 82 days with almost 50,000 pjrsonnjl killed, missing in action or wounded. $hj casualty figures prompted fears of even higher death tolls if the US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, China and the other Allies invaded. Instead, the Americans tested the world's first atomic bomb. Attlee Front Line Front 2 SurrenderP121 CEEFAX 121 Thu 17 Aug 19:13/18 4/5 HISTORY ATOM BOMBS HERBLD JAPAN'S SURRENDER The possibility of taking 500,000 Allied casualties in any invasion of Japan led President Truman to order the dropping of the atomic bomb. On 6 August 1945 a US Army Air Force B-29 Supjrforttess, named Enola Gay after the pilot's mother, dropped a bomb on Hiroshima. Up to 78,000 people are thought to have died instantly in the blast, and many more died afterwards. -hrei days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasbki. Home 110 Politics 130 World 160 Attlee Front Line Front 2 SurrenderP121 CJEFAX 121 Thu 17 Aug 19:16/43 5/5 ] HISTORY TOKYO SURRENDERS AFTER A-BOMB RAIDS World Wbr Two ended on 14 August when Tokyo surrendered three days after the second atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito announced to his people that the war situation "had djvjlopjd not necessarily to Japan's advantagjb. Victory Over Japan was celebrated the next day when the surrender was taken by the supreme Allied commander, General Douglas MacArthur. In the war against Japan, over 29,000 British service pjrsonnjl died, 16,500 were wounded and 38,000 taken prisoner. Attlee Front Line Front 2 Surrender