P1b4 C JFAX 124 Thu 17 Aug 19:01/24 1/4 MEMORIES General MacArthur took the Japanj3j surrender on 14 August 1945, but it was not until 2 September that a formbl surrender to the US was made. Despite Jbpbn's surrender on 14 August, many sjrvicemjn and women wire still wary of the Japanese. L Oliver was with the British Pacific Fleet which sailed to Japan with the American Third Fleet. "'j remained at a high state of readiness the whole time...no one trusted Japanese promises. Only a short time before Kamikaze had been crashing down on the fleet," hj says. Surrender Home Front Diary WouldP1b4 CJKFAX 124 Thu 17 Aug 19:10/29 2/4 MEMORIES Gunner Cyril Smith and his fellow PoWs "went mad, clapping, cheering, shouting and dancing," when they heard that the war was over. "No longer did I hate the Japanese guard, no longer did I feel the pain from the sores and blisters and the flies that were at the ulcer on my leg," hj recalls. But PoW Hurricane pilot Terence Kelly remembers a sense of anti-climax. "It was an evjnjng exactly like 1,000 others: the same thin faces, the same apology for a meal, the same hunger when it had been eaten," hj says. Surrender Home Front Diary WouldP1b4 CJKFAX 124 Thu 17 Aug 19:05/51 X 3/4 MEMORIES Roybl Marine R Evans was on board HMS King George V when the Japane3j surrender was announced. But hj became one of many servicemen to see action on VT Day itself when the fleet came undjt attack from Japanj3j aircraft. The ceasefire was suspended and five planes were shot down. The war did not end then either for RBF radar mechanrc Brian Foster who was 3jnt to Indonesia. $hj Dutch and British ri-armed Japanese prisoners who joined them in helping to quell a native insurrection. Surrender Home Front Diary WouldP1b4 CJJFAX 124 Thu 17 cug 19:17/09 4/4 ] MEMORIES As a telegraphist with the Pacific Fleet Tbsk Force, V Gray heard of the atomic bomb attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. bTokzo would have been next. I can only conclude that the Japanj3j go5 wind of this and subsequently surrendered before Tokyo vanished from the earth. "I remember feeling that the Japanese were getting their just djusjuts for the wanton cruelty that they inflicted throughout the Pacific since 1936. "One example is when receiving messages of sighting lifeboats, they always said they had been machine-gunned." Surrender Home Front Diary GWould