After the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are destroyed, the Japanese delegation meets with General McCarthur aboard the USS Missouri to sign an agreement of unconditional surrender (11 Pics)

After the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are destroyed, the Japanese delegation meets with General McCarthur aboard the USS Missouri to sign an agreement of unconditional surrender (11 Pics)

 


A photo taken from a suburb of Hiroshima on the morning of August 6th 1945
Between 130k and 230k people died as a direct result of the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Between 90-95% of doctors and medical personnel were killed or seriously wounded during the explosion leading to a lack of ability to respond

General McCarthur delivers a speech in front of Soviet/British/French/Australian officers. The flag in back was used by Commodore Perry in 1853

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