Marc Gallicchio is professor of history at Villanova University and was a Fulbright visiting lecturer in Japan, 1998-1999 and 2004-2005. He is coauthor, with Waldo Heinrichs, of Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945, which won the Bancroft Prize in History.
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Signed on September 2, 1945 by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. The surrender fulfilled the commitment that Franklin ... SEE MORE