On August 20, 1945, U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright, who commanded American and Filipino forces in the last days of Corregidor and Bataan in 1942, was found alive in a Japanese prison camp in...
On August 30, 1945, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to organize the Allied occupation of the country. Three days later, aboard the USS ''Missouri'' in Tokyo Bay, he presided over...