This presentation covers the events preceding the celebration of VJ Day. Some of the events covered in this presentation are: the attack on Pearl Harbor,; the capture of US POW No 1 (Kazuo Sakamaki); the Janesville 99 – a tank company from Janesville, WI that took part in the Bataan Peninsula battle and the infamous Bataan death march; the dropping of the nuclear bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki leading directly to the end of WWII; the euphoric celebration of VJ Day (Aug 15th, 1945) and the infamous celebratory sailor/nurse “KISS” in NY city.