VICTORY over Japan (VJ) Day, 15 August 1945, is the day Imperial Japan surrendered during the Second World War, effectively bringing the global war to an end. On 2 September, the formal surrender occurred on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

To learn more about Pacific sphere and the role young men and women played in helping end the conflict, join us Monday 1 September, 7-8pm for a talk by Peter Kornicki, Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University, titled ‘Eavesdropping on the Emperor, Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain’s War with Japan’- https://academic.oup.com/book/39858.

£6.50 per person, including light refreshments. Doors open at 6.30pm, finishing by 8.30pm. To book visit, https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/efdmuseum, or call 01992 716882 or email [email protected].