After six years and one day, it was finally over. The Japanese formally signed the surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. It ended a global war that had cost millions of lives and caused untold devastation. VJ Day is the story of the end of World War Two - particularly the end of the War in the Pacific.  Discover how the Allied forces halted the Japanese advance and then closed in on the home islands. Once victory was assured, America and the world celebrated - in New York, San Francisco, Boston, London, Paris and Sydney.