is google frontpage actually saying this?

[solarbird]

Is this just some sort of weirdness on my browser, or is Google actually saying this?

Excuse You

Because I’m pretty sure everyone with a Pacific Ocean coast might have something to say about that. Particularly but by no means exclusively China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Viet Nam.

Front of Battle, 1 August 1945, Pacific Theatre

Also Hiroshima.

And Nagasaki.

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Comments

[ex_inklessej388]

So someone at Google didn't do their homework and is a little over-zealous. The total surrender of German forces came into effect 8 May 1945 which signalled the end of the World War II in Europe. This day is properly called Victory in Europe (VE) Day. World War II as a whole ended when the Pacific campaign came to a close after the tragic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria defeating the Kwantung Army. Japan surrendered on 2 Sep 1945. So we have a few months before all of World War II is over and we can remember that day (known as Victory over Japan Day or Victory in the Pacific Day).

[solarbird]

Thank you Mister Data.

[ex_inklessej388]

Ha! My original comment was just going to agree with you and then it became a history lesson so I figured that Data made a good userpic for this one. Hope you are having a good Friday.

[write_light]

The beginning of the end most likely. How about seeing if they have V-J day posts planned?

[solarbird]

How 'bout that's not my job and even if they do, World War II didn't end with the surrender of the Nazi government in Europe.

Hell, the final disposition treaty wasn't signed until 1990, if you want to get all technical about it.

Dear Google...

[thnidu]

(Just posted to Google on that page)

Seventy years ago, "The end of World War II". That would be May 8, 1945.

Funny about that. As I remember— from history, not in my own lifetime but not long before—
• World War II was a **WORLD** war, not just a European war.
• The US dropped the first atomic bomb used in war on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the second one on Nagasaki three days later, August 9.
• Quoting from Wikipedia:
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.