#VJDay

Today #VJDay and #VJ75 is trending as we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2 with Japan's surrender India gathered the largest voluntary army in history for WW2-
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Great article in @spectator by Francis Pike countering the malign untruth that Japan was about to surrender in August 1945 before the A-bombs were dropped. I made the same point
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On this day 1945 the @RoyalNavy Pacific Fleet under V/Adm Sir Bernad Rawlings, with its @Australian_Navy & @NZNavy elements launched an air strike on Japan, alongside the vast @USNavy 3rd
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It's worth saying that the Pacific Fleet off Japan wasn't the only @RoyalNavy fleet in the Far East on #VJDay. At Trincomalee lay the East Indies Fleet, under Adm Sir
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