President Truman's announcement of the surrender started mass celebrations across the United States, which was when he declared September 2 as the official "VJ Day" in 1945. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, and the Soviet Union's invasion of Manchuria in the previous week led to the eventual surrender. Victory Day has commemorated the anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allies in 1945 which ended World War II. Scene made famous by Life magazine photograph In 2015, the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama honored 500 veterans on the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. More than one in ten of the states' residents served in the war, and 2,340 (671 Navy or Marines) were killed. Rhode Island retains the date as a formal state holiday in tribute to the number of sailors it sent and lost in the Pacific front. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of World War II and is related to Victory over Japan Day in the United Kingdom and regions of the United States. Furthermore, in 2017, WPRI-TV claimed that Arkansas (which stopped celebrating the day in 1975) and Rhode Island were the only two states to ever celebrate the holiday, though Arkansas's name for the holiday was "World War II Memorial Day." Victory Day is a holiday observed in the United States state of Rhode Island with state offices closed on the second Monday of August. (1) Second Monday in August (Rhode Island and US Space & Rocket Center) (1) Rhode Island state holiday, state offices closed Victory Over Japan Day, VJ Day, World War II Memorial Day ( Arkansas) Crowds celebrating V-J Day in Times Square
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