VE Day-May 7th (8th) 1945 - my Dad was in London on leave. VJ Day-August 15th, 1945 - Daddy was on a troop ship in New York Harbor preparing to ship out to the Pacific. As the bombs were dropped on the 6th (Hiroshima) and the 9th (Nagasaki) - it STILL took them a few days to accept that they had been defeated.