Leaflets Announce Japan’s Surrender

Following an aborted mission to bomb the infamous Yellow River Bridge just north of Chenghsien, a single Chinese-American Composite Wing B-25 flew on August 12, 1945, to the Nangyang-Yochow-Siangying delta area and dropped hundreds of thousands of “informational leaflets” printed in both the Chinese and Japanese languages. They announced the joyous news that “JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED! WAR IS COMPLETELY OVER!”