● 1944

44-6-6 D-Day - June 6, 1944 .. Operation Neptune
44-6-6 D-Day - Overlord, Neptune ..
44-8-25 Siegfried Line Campaign 45-3-7 ..
44-9-19 Hürtgen Forest 44-12-16 ..
44-10-12 Aachen 44-10-21 ..

● 1945

45-3-7 Battle of Remagen 45-3-17 ..
45-4-23 Battle of Berlin ..
45-4-26 Arrest of Pétain ..
45-5-5 Battle for Castle Itter ..
45-5-8 VE Day - Victory in Europe .. 
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..
45-6-21 Post-war Berlin ..

45-9-4 Forgotten German Unit Surrenders

A small group of German soldiers deployed on Svalbard in Operation Haudegen to establish and man a weather station there lost radio contact in May 1945; they surrendered to some Norwegian seal hunters on 4 September , 1945, two days after the Surrender of Japan.

The Forgotten Wehrmacht Unit | Last Germans to Surrender after WW2 > .

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, at least, in the European theatre of war.

But… the war didn’t end for a small Wehrmacht unit consisting of 11 men that were housed at Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The Wehrmacht unit was tasked with a secret mission named Operation Haudegen. They had to establish meteorological stations on Svalbard. In the chaos following the German capitulation, this Wehrmacht unit was forgotten… And these men would eventually, stuck on an island in the freezing cold, far from civilization, months after Germany’s capitulation. They would become the last German soldiers to surrender after the Second World War.

Hitler’s Holdouts – Meet the Last German Troops to Surrender in WW2: 
VE Plus 119 - The very last German troops of the Second World War to call it quits turned themselves in to a band of Norwegian seal hunters on the remote Bear Island in the Barents Sea on Sept. 4, 1945 – nearly four months after VE Day! The small detachment had been sent to the distant Arctic outpost to establish a weather station sometime late in the war. Having lost radio contact with headquarters in May. They gave up without a fight.

45-8-28 Occupation of Japan

Occupying Japan 1945 - The First Days > . 
The Day Japan Surrendered, Ending WWII | NBC > .

Japanese Surrender in Color (1945) > .

Japanese Surrender in HD Color 1945 > .

US Fleet Comes Home (1946) > .

Japan - Never a Superpower - KhAnubis > .

23-4-23 Japanese History, Defence Strategy & Rearmament - Perun > .

Japan - VisPol >> .

Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese government notified the Allies that it had accepted the Potsdam Declaration. On the following day, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender on the radio (the Gyokuon-hōsō). The announcement was the emperor's first ever planned radio broadcast and the first time most citizens of Japan ever heard their sovereign's voice.

45-8-15 V-J Day - Victory over Japan Day ..

This date is known as Victory over Japan, or V-J Day, and marked the end of World War II and the beginning of a long road to recovery for a shattered Japan. Japanese officials left for Manila, Philippines on August 19 to meet MacArthur and to be briefed on his plans for the occupation. On August 28, 1945, 150 US personnel flew to Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture. They were followed by USS Missouri, whose accompanying vessels landed the 4th Marine Regiment on the southern coast of Kanagawa. The 11th Airborne Division was airlifted from Okinawa to Atsugi Airdrome, 30 miles from Tokyo. Other Allied personnel followed.

MacArthur arrived in Tokyo on August 30, and immediately decreed several laws. No Allied personnel were to assault Japanese people. No Allied personnel were to eat the scarce Japanese food. Flying the Hinomaru or "Rising Sun" flag was initially severely restricted (although individuals and prefectural offices could apply for permission to fly it). This restriction was partially lifted in 1948 and completely lifted the following year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan .

45-8-15 V-J Day - Victory over Japan Day

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VJ-Day London Celebrations (1945) - Pathé > .

VJ Day - BrMo > .
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Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender documentoccurred, officially ending World War II.

August 15 is the official V-J Day for the UK, while the official US commemoration is September 2. The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe.

On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. In Japan, August 15 usually is known as the "memorial day for the end of the war" (終戦記念日 Shūsen-kinenbi); the official name for the day, however, is "the day for mourning of war dead and praying for peace" (戦没者を追悼し平和を祈念する日 Senbotsusha o tsuitōshi heiwa o kinensuru hi). This official name was adopted in 1982 by an ordinance issued by the Japanese government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day .