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70 years liberation of the Pacific Pacific

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75 years ago the Japanese army captured the Dutch Indies, we now know as Indonesia. They surrendered on 15 August 1945. The formal and official surrender of Japan took place aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. Correspondent Joost Bosman says the remembrance service in The Netherlands was geared to the younger generation.



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