Special: Last Man Standing

Pilots,

As strange as it sounds, there is not one definitive date that marks the end of World War II. In fact, Victory Day was proclaimed multiple times and at different occasions depending on the various geographical regions where a major conflict subsided. However, more or less all the historians agree, that V-J Day, the day when Japan formally surrendered on September 2^nd 1945, should be considered one of the final milestones of the Second World War.

This very important event on the road to peace brings you the following bonuses in the game:

X3 experience for the first three victories of the day with each plane

Learn from the experience of the past to gain more XP in the future!

50% discount on the following Tier VI planes

	Soviet Fighter Lavochkin La-5
	Soviet Attack Aircraft Ilyushin IL-2(t)
	German Fighter Messerschmitt Bf 109 F Friedrich
	German Heavy Fighter Messerschmitt Bf 109 Z Zwilling
	German Heavy Fighter Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse
	US Fighter P-51A Mustang
	US Carrier-based Fighter Chance-Vought F4U Corsair
	Japanese Carrier-based Fighter Mitsubishi A7M Reppu

If tier VI planes are what you’re looking for, then tier VI planes you shall have!

The special starts on Monday, September 2^nd at 07:30 CEST (GMT + 2) and runs until Thursday, September 5^th at 08:00 CEST.

The Second World War was a global war of all the major powers of the 20^th century in what has been so far the biggest military conflict in the history of mankind. While it has a pretty clear beginning, generally held to be that of September 1^st 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, there are multiple dates that are believed to mark the end of this giant, world-spanning conflict.

Depending on the region, the end of World War II in Europe can be attributed to May 8^th, when Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces, or May 9^th, when a similar agreement was signed with Soviet Russia. However, many other conflicts still waged on outside Europe, mainly in Asia where Japan was the ‘Last Man Standing’ and still opposing the Allies and Soviet Russia alike.

The ‘beginning of the end’, which almost instantly led to Japan’s capitulation was the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6^th and 9^th. Already on the ropes and severely beaten in the South Pacific, this vicious devastation inflicted by the US on Japanese home territory prompted Emperor Hirohito to announce Japan’s plans to surrender almost immediately afterwards on August 10^th. August 15^th, the day on which his voice was publicly broadcast over the radio reading out the decree to surrender, is yet another moment which many believe to be the end of World War II.

The official surrender ceremony was held two weeks later on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2^nd. It was only after this formal event that President Harry S. Truman declared the war to be truly over by proclaiming it V-J Day (as opposed to V-E day in Europe). However, it would take until October for all Japanese troops to cease fire in places like Korea, Burma or Taiwan, which they still occupied at the moment of the peace proclamation. Nonetheless the war did end – even if it took multiple tries all around the world to get there.

Remember that war is never a game, not even at Wargaming, Pilots! Get Airborne!