Editor’s note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News Archives.
Aug. 14-15, 2020, marks 75 years since WWII ended with the surrender of Japan. Take a look back at how competing daily newspapers The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald (then The Daily Times Herald) covered the events leading up to Victory over Japan Day, from the dropping of the first atomic bomb to Japan’s surrender.
Aug. 6, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Aug. 9, 1945: Atomic bomb hit Nagasaki; Russians joined war against Japan
Aug. 14, 1945: Japan surrenders
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