{"id":7054,"date":"2026-09-02T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:20:55","slug":"japan-formally-surrendered-in-1945-aboard-the-uss-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"Japan Formally Surrendered in 1945 aboard the USS Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10698\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10698\" class=\"wp-image-10698 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Japanese-Surrender.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Surrender to End World War II\" width=\"200\" height=\"159\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Surrender to End World War II<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Japan formally surrendered in 1945 aboard the <em>USS Missouri,<\/em><\/strong> ending World War II. The ceremony, broadcast around the world via radio, lasted about 23 minutes. The Allied copy of the surrender is located in the National Archives:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/historical-docs\/todays-doc\/index.html?dod-date=902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan formally surrendered in 1945 aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II. The ceremony, broadcast around the world via radio, lasted about 23 minutes. The Allied copy of the surrender is located in the National Archives:\u00a0World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4701,1417,1419,5787,1418,44],"class_list":["post-7054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4701","tag-end-of-world-war-ii","tag-japanese-surrender","tag-september-2","tag-uss-missouri","tag-world-war-ii","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29674,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/29674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}