Matted with a spectacular black and white photo signed by THREE of the Enola Gay Hiroshima mission pilots. He ordered the Japanese government to prepare a text accepting surrender. After a long, emotional debate, he backed a proposal by Prime Minister Suzuki in which Japan would accept the Potsdam Declaration “with the understanding that said Declaration does not compromise any demand that prejudices the prerogatives of His Majesty as the sovereign ruler.” The council obeyed Hirohito’s acceptance of peace, and on August 10 the message was relayed to the United States.Įarly on August 12, the United States answered that “the authority of the emperor and the Japanese government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.” After two days of debate about what this statement implied, Emperor Hirohito brushed the nuances in the text aside and declared that peace was preferable to destruction. Just before midnight on August 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito convened the supreme war council. atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese coastal city of Nagasaki. The next day, Soviet forces attacked in Manchuria, rapidly overwhelming Japanese positions there, and a second U.S. On August 8, Japan’s desperate situation took another turn for the worse when the USSR declared war against Japan. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 people and fatally wounding thousands more.Īfter the Hiroshima attack, a faction of Japan’s supreme war council favored acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, but the majority resisted unconditional surrender. President Harry Truman ordered the devastation to proceed, and on August 6, the U.S. Ten days later, the Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration, demanding the “unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces.” Failure to comply would mean “the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitable the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.” On July 28, Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki responded by telling the press that his government was “paying no attention” to the Allied ultimatum. On July 16, a new option became available when the United States secretly detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. In advance of this moment, the invasion of Japan had promised to be the bloodiest seaborne attack of all time, conceivably 10 times as costly as the Normandy invasion in terms of Allied casualties. On Saturday we accepted Japanese terms if they agree to let the Allie Supreme Commander rule Japan throughout and have the emperor under their control." On Friday the Japanese government offered to surrender if they could keep their emperor. On Thursday the second atomic bomb was dropped and Japan was asked to surrender by the United Nations. On Wednesday Russia declared war on Japan. Truman returned from the Potsdam conference. On Monday the news of the Atomic Bomb was announced to the world. For the first time in the history of the world atomic power has been released. On Sunday the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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"The most momentous week in the history of mankind since the birth of Christ has just been completed.
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The complete and lasting destruction (with the second bomb which followed), and the Russian's turning on Japan essentially ended World War II. Matted overall: 23.75" x 14.625" x 1."Ī spectacular, important naval dispatch defining the moment in history of the first Atomic bomb released in war. John Fox (1905-1999) Intelligence Officer for the Amphibious Forces, via Auction (see below for his Biography). Naval Communication Service, Amphibious Forces, Pacific. The naval dispatch measures 8" x 7," with two punch holes along top edge. Atomic Bomb WWII Dispatch: "The most momentous week in the history of mankind since the birth of Christ has just been completed"Ī single page typed naval dispatch artfully matted to the left of a 3x signed black and white photo signed by Enola Gay Hiroshima mission pilots.