From outbreak to surrender: Seventy-five years since the end of World War Two in the Pacific
FILE PHOTO: Japan's Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese government, onboard the U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan September 2, 1945. Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, watches from the opposite side of the table. Foreign Ministry representative Toshikazu Kase is assisting Mr. Shigemitsu. U.S. Army Signal Corps/U.S.
Shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack, Japanese troops land on the east coast of west Malaya, and capture large swathes of territory in their push southward to Singapore. April 1942: U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war are forced to march about 100km under brutal conditions after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. Many died from physical abuse, dysentery and other diseases.Aug. 1942: In the Pacific, Japanese and U.S. troops fight from island to island. Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, was the scene of six months of fighting.
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