Good morning.
The middle of Whitewater’s week will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-one, with light, northwest winds of around 5 mph in the afternoon.
On this day in 1945, the Japanese people, themselves, learn that will surrender unconditionally to the Allies:
…an official announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the Japanese people.
Even though Japan’s War Council, urged by Emperor Hirohito, had already submitted a formal declaration of surrender to the Allies, via ambassadors, on August 10, fighting continued between the Japanese and the Soviets in Manchuria and between the Japanese and the United States in the South Pacific. In fact, two days after the Council agreed to surrender, a Japanese submarine sank the Oak Hill, an American landing ship, and the Thomas F. Nickel, an American destroyer, both east of Okinawa.
In the afternoon of August 14, Japanese radio announced that an Imperial Proclamation was soon to be made, accepting the terms of unconditional surrender drawn up at the Potsdam Conference. That proclamation had already been recorded by the emperor. The news did not go over well, as more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers stormed the Imperial Palace in an attempt to find the proclamation and prevent its being transmitted to the Allies. Soldiers still loyal to Emperor Hirohito repulsed the attackers.
America receives the news of Japanese surrender with pride, joy, and relief:
Puzzability continues a weekly puzzle series entitled, Tourist Traps:
Tourist Traps
We’re crossing a lot of bridges on our summer vacation. For each day this week, fill in the two-word name of a U.S. tourist destination so that a familiar phrase or compound word is formed by the first word in the clue followed by the first word in the tourist site, and likewise a phrase or word is formed by the second word in the tourist site’s name followed by the second word in the clue.
Example:
GRIND ___ ___ GOAT
Answer:
Stone Mountain
Here’s today’s puzzle:
Wednesday, August 14
MODERN ___ ___ RIGGER