Sentence examples for surrender in august from inspiring English sources

After Japan's surrender in August, Yancey was in Tokyo Bay during the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on 2 September.

Saratoga remained in this role for the rest of the war and was used to ferry troops back to the United States after the Japanese surrender in August.

To shorten the time required to replenish the BPF's carriers, the ship was based in the Admiralty Islands and in the Philippine Islands until the Japanese surrender in August.

In any event ETA shows no signs of readiness to surrender: in December it killed two people in a bomb attack at Madrid's Barajas airport.There are lessons to be learnt from Northern Ireland about getting terrorists to realise that violence is not helping them.

When English miners tunnelled under the walls and forced its surrender in September, Henry is said to have thrown his splendid hat in the air in exuberance, and it was caught and kept as a souvenir of the victory by one of his courtiers.

After the Japanese formal surrender in September, Implacable ferried Allied troops and prisoners of war back to Australia and Canada for the rest of the year.

Because of this, Cornwallis missed most of the siege bombardment and the surrender in May; forces directed by Cornwallis and led by Banastre Tarleton completed the encirclement of Charleston, skirmishing with the Americans at Monck's Corner and Lenud's Ferry.

During the following months Krasnyi Krym brought in reinforcements for the garrison of Sevastopol and evacuated the wounded, sometimes bombarding German positions en route, her last such mission being on 3 June 1942, after the Germans had already launched the attack that would force the city to surrender in July.

The city surrendered in August and an-Nasir Yusuf's terms forced al-Ashraf Musa to hand over Homs, but he was allowed to retain nearby Palmyra and Tell Bashir in the Syrian Desert.

Initial plans had called for the division to be used as an Imperial Strategic Reserve, as it was believed that 6th Airborne Division would be required in the Far Eastern Theatre; however, when Japan surrendered in August it negated the need for 6th Airborne Division to be transferred.

I entered NYU in January 1945 at the age of 18. WWII was still raging and I was in the Reserve Officers Training Corpss in preparation for my expected entry into the Army but the European War was over in April and the Japanese surrendered in August so I had just missed the call for additional troops.