No end to the war on Japan

9th May 1945: Men fighting on Okinawa and in Burma find little to celebrate in the news that the war in Europe is over

Grim-faced American soldiers fighting on Okinawa listen to the radio broadcast of the surrender of Germany and the end of WWII in Europe.

The war against Japan now seemed inevitably to have the same outcome as the war against Germany. An equally unrelenting grind towards the end also seemed to be in prospect - which looked very likely to be even more blo…