V-J Day
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of V-J Day
V-J: victory over Japan
Example Sentences
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But they are an anomaly, as out of date as the Japanese soldier who came blasting from a Pacific cave 10 years after V-J Day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Kruger’s composition recalls Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous 1945 photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022
I was born less than two years after its counterpart V-J Day, marking the surrender of Imperial Japan in August 1945.
From Salon • May 9, 2020
But it wasn’t just a celebration of the end of the conflict, nor was it just a celebration of V-J Day.
From Washington Times • Aug. 16, 2016
Three weeks after V-J Day, the Norfolk Journal and Guide reported layoffs of 1,500 Newport News shipyard workers and a “decrease for women workers, both white and colored.”
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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