75 Years Ago Today

RustyRatRod said

The Japanese signed the Instrument of Surrender onboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Daddy was "out there somewhere" in that picture on the destroyer escort DE742 he served on. I haven't seen a thing about this anywhere in the media.

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A friend of mine should be in that picture Ed Johnson was on board the USS Missouri at that time. We used to talk about it. He said the tallest thing standing in the city's where the bomb hit was the street marker signs. Everything else was on the ground or gone.

I use to work at Stallion Range center WSMR. We rebuilt the McDonald ranch house where the plutonium core was keap. The story goes the scientist use to put their lunches on top of it to keep them warm. It's now a tourist site that is open once a year.