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Old 10-08-2007, 04:40 PM   #614 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Peter Clare View Post
1945 : Japan accepts Potsdam terms, agrees to unconditional surrender
Sad time for the Japanese civilians but jubilation for the families of allied soldiers, sailors and airmen that did not have to invade the Japanese mainland.

After years of the worst atrocities perpetrated in war by the German and the Japanese military, this war was at an end.
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

 What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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