Duty's End

The announcement of Japan's acceptance of surrender terms by President Truman on August 14 came at a time when powerful units of the U.S. Paific Fleet were cruising off the Japanese mainland and hundreds of thousands of Army and Marine Corps troops were poised at advance bases in readiness for an invasion of the heart of Nippon's empire."

Click here to read about operations Olympic and Coronet - the U.S. invasion of Japan.

Click here to read more about W.W. II at sea.