Subli

Morotai, Dutch East Indies, Australian Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey accepts Japanese surrender.

Everyone has read about the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri, but the Pacific War was far larger and spread out more than the European side.

The demands of the surrender were formidable. So many different ceremonies took place across Asia and the entire Pacific. Here we will some that preceded peacefully and others that refused the peace. In actuality, the state of war between the U.S. and Japan did not officially end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect 28 April, 1952.

USS Segundo SS-398 located this Japanese sub 1-401 and negotiated with the crew being that their captain had committed suicide

One mass surrender did occur at Noemfoor in September 1944 when 265 Japanese enlisted men, angry at their superiors for stealing their food for their own use. And, in August 1945, another starving Japanese…