'Witness' to Japan's defeat in World War II

'Witness' to Japan's defeat in World War II

TOKYO, Japan - A weather chart preserved at the National Archives for 54 years shows fine weather in Tokyo with a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius on Aug. 15, 1945, the day Japan surrendered to end World War II.

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