During World War II, hundreds of photographers and reporters were dispersed around the world on behalf of the Associated Press. In 1945, when the war ended, the agency published Reporting to Remember, an anthology of first-hand accounts of what they saw, alongside great photographs like the one shown here. For the 70th anniversary of V-E Day — May 8, 1945 — Rosetta Books republished those accounts as the e-book World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs by Correspondents of the Associated Press. The following essay, The ‘Rising Sun’ Sets on the Missouri, by Murlin Spencer, is an excerpt from that book. Wamoru Shigemitsu’s wooden leg caused him trouble as he climbed the steep gang plank leading to the broad deck of the USS Missouri.

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