Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan and the National WWII Museum will commemorate the event with a presentation about the end of the cataclysmic war.

"The Surrender of Japan: Orchestrating the End of the War" will be a presentation by retired Army Col. Michael S. Bell, Ph.D., who serves as the executive director of the museum's Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.

The presentation will take place in the museum's Freedom Pavilion at 11 a.m.

Though the hostilities ended Aug. 15, 1945 when Emperor Hirohito addressed his people via radio, the official surrender (V-J Day) was Sept. 2, ending two weeks of tense negotiations with the Japanese military. The formal surrender occurred on the deck of the USS Missouri.

The events saw the end

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