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Fifty years since V J Day marked by memories across Grand Saline
Fifty years after Japan's surrender to Allied forces on August 14, 1945, residents of Grand Saline recall where they were and what they felt when World War II ended. Local veterans and families recount reactions to the bombings, the invasion prospects, and the sense of a new beginning as peace arrived, with personal notes from Marvin Peel, Lovie Joy Peel, Bill Thomas, Cornelia Tally, and others. V-J Day was publicly acclaimed on September 2, 1945, aboard the Missouri surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cindy Davis
Harry S. Truman
Japan
United States
Pearl Harbor
U.S
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Robert Bradford
Grand Saline
Army Air Corps
Air Force
Truman
Mildred Joslin
Canton
Dallas
Joslin
Gladys Wallace
Ruby Darby
The
Adolphus
Ann Fletcher
Morton Salt
Marvin
Lovie Joy
MecNorton
Perry Brothers
Bill
Dollar
Okinawa
Cearl Harbor
Lovie
Bill Thomas
Baylor University
Doug
Cornelia Fonners Tally
H.B. Shinn
Pruitt
Van
Killefff
Bryant
Shing
Shinn-Bryant American Legion Hall
Tally
Jency
Bud
Missouri
Tokyo Bay