bigpigeon.us webpage WWII - Japan > Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished , updated by RAC 18 May 2022. This webpage is currently incomplete.
This webpage focuses on the Japanese surrender and the subsequent occupation.
This webpage focuses on the Japanese surrender and the subsequent occupation.
The timeline:
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The Japanese Surrender
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The Occupation of Japan
I believe that one of the wisest American decisions of World War II allowed Emperor Hirohito to retain the Japanese throne. The United States then was better able to oversee the peaceful rehabilitation of Japan. General Douglas MacArthur remained in Japan until 1951, when his wings were finally clipped by President Harry Truman, who fired him for insubordination during the Korean War. Japan officially regained its independence in 1952, has been a steadfast but a bit aloof ally of the United States, and today has the world's third largest economy. The United States has retained a modest military presence in Japan. Japan, one of the most militaristic societies in the world in the 1930s, has never rebuilt a sizable military. However, Japan has not atoned for its crimes against humanity before and during World War II to the extent that Germany has done. |
MacArthur and Hirohito - September 1945
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Sources for the Japan Vanquished webpage:
Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - Japan Vanquished:
- The MacArthur and Hirohito, September 1945 photo is courtesy of en.wikpmedia.org.
Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - Japan Vanquished:
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WWII Roster module.
- Deaths in the Japan area after the surrender announcement of 15 August 1945 and later during the occupation of Japan.
- 24th Medical Bn., 24th Inf. Div.; DNB 23 Dec 1945 in hotel fire on Skikoku Is., Japan; Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished.
- 868th Bomb. Sqdn., attached directly to Thirteenth Air Force headquarters; based at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa Is., Japan; flying radar-equipped Consolidated SB-24 Liberator search bombers specializing in night missions; tail number and pilot unknown; DNB 24 Sep 1945, Okinawa, Ryukyu Is., Japan, aircraft accident after Japan surrendered; Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished.
- 386th Bomb. Sqdn., 312th Bomb Gp., based at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan; Consolidated B-32 Dominator #42-108544 gunnery officer w/ pilot Leonard M. Sill; KIA 28 Aug 1945 at Yontan Airfield during takeoff; plane skidded off the runway and exploded; crew of 13 all died; Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished.