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The announcement that Japan had accepted the Allied ultimatum came on August 15, 1945 (Japan time), and the documents of surrender were signed on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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The Japanese formally surrendered on September 2, 1945. Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the two atomic bombing that brought Japan to its knees immediately.

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki some Japanese military leaders wanted to continue the war. However, in mid-August the Army Air Corps sent a bombing raid of over 140 B-29s that passed by Tokyo.

What frightened the Japanese was the prospect that each plane might have carried an atomic bomb even though we had used our only two bombs. That convinced them to surrender.

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In World War II, the Japanese agreed to surrender on August 14-15, 1945, but the official signing of the agreement was on September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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September 2, 1945

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