The Second World War Ended 70 Years Ago

CBS: 70 years ago: Japan surrendered, bringing an end to WWII

It has been seven decades since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by the United States killing tens of thousands of people and prompting the end of WWII.

And it is exactly 70 years ago Wednesday, on Sept. 2, 1945, that 11 men representing Japan arrived aboard the battleship Missouri to surrender their country.

American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The U.S. bomb, "Little Boy," the first nuclear weapon used in war, killed 140,000 people.

A second bomb, "Fat Man," dropped over Nagasaki three days later, killed another 70,000.

More News On The 70th Anniversary On The End Of The Second World War

Read an Eyewitness Account of the Japanese Surrender in World War II -- Time
'Indescribable': Witness to the end of WWII -- CNN
A look inside the WWII surrender ceremony: 'My job was to make sure we did not screw up' -- L.A. Times
5 Things You May Not Know About the End of World War II -- DoD Live