I Almost Forgot....It's VJ Day

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

[Cypress Sun]

 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

My Dad's regiment -

Edit: That's NOT my Dad holding the sword.
 

Edited Thursday at 01:57 AM by Buckshot Bear

[Buckshot Bear]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

I was 2 years old at the time and my Father was stationed as an instructor at #2 AOS (part of the BCATP) in Edmonton, Alberta.

I have a memory of being out at night with my Mother and Father, carried in Mom's arms; people yelling., laughing, my Mother crying, (her brothers and most of her cousins would be coming home, while it was likely Dad's transfer to an aerial recon squadron in the Pacific would now likely not happen.) 

I remember people grabbing my Father and carrying him away on their shoulders. (He was in his RCAF uniform) 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

And my wife's birthday a year later.  She would have bee 80 today.

[Rye Miles #13621]

I’m late to this! Great date in history 🇺🇸

[Chantry]

81 years ago the war ended in Pacific & Asia for American service men.

 

For the members of the British Indian Army the war would continue as they accepted the surrender of Japanese troops and began fighting those the British & US had trained to fight a guerilla war against the Japanese.  The peoples of the various British, Dutch and French colonies did not want to return to being colonies of European countries.  With France and the Netherlands still recovering from WWII and unable to send troops to their colonies, it fell to the British Indian army to restore order in the colonies, sometimes using the very same Japanese they had just finished fighting, to help restore order.

 

Some British Indian Army units arrived back home just in time for the Partition of India where the military units were allocated to India, West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) leaving behind the regimental stations they had spent most of their lives at.

[DukeSoprano]

My father got lucky, raised in a small town of less than 400 people, he was drafted and right before he left for Japan, they surrendered. I have every letter he wrote to his mother, one letter he wrote that he had heard Japan fell. I have the rifle, swords and a Nambu pistol he sent home. 

[watab kid]

i forgot to mention the two august dates that i always remember - the days the bombs were dropped that brought my father home