Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3278 along with the VFW Auxiliary & Men’s Auxiliary will observe the end of The War in the Pacific, VJ Day, Victory over Japan, on Wednesday, September 9.  The observation will be held at 6:00 PM at the VFW Post, located at 2300 Stephen F. Austin.

The war against Japan lasted 3 years and 5 months and ended officially September 2, 1945.  Over 322,419 Service members were killed, wounded, or listed as missing in action in the Pacific.

Pictured above, General MacArthur accepts the Japanese surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri, in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Below is the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.