(Img: U.S. Navy/National Archives) Following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese Empire surrender unconditionally to the Americans and British on-board the USS Missouri, officially ending World War II. Watch as Japan surrenders to Allies in this World War II newscast.
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