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In Hawaii, ceremonies at battleship Missouri to mark the end of World War II

The end of World War II is to be remembered in Hawaii at the ship where the Japanese surrendered 70 years ago, less than a month after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Sources: Pearl Harbor.org, Encyclopedia Britannica. Photo of the battleship Arizona by the Associated Press.

The surrender occurred Sept. 2, 1945, on the deck of the battleship Missouri while it was anchored in Tokyo Bay. The vessel is a now floating museum at Pearl Harbor, where an attack by the Japanese prompted the U.S. to enter World War II.

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