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VJ|viː dʒeɪ|
[f. the initial letters of Victory over Japan.]
Used attrib. and absol. to denote the victory of the Allied forces over those of Japan during the war of 1939–45; esp. as VJ-day, designating either the day upon which Japan ceased fighting (14 August 1945) or the day of Japan's formal surrender (2 September 1945).
1944[see VE]. 1945Sun (Baltimore) 15 June 1/8 (heading) ‘V-J by Christmas’ amazes Carlson. 1945Yank 7 Sept. 9 The GIs had managed to keep their VJ spirit bottled up through most of the phony rumors, but when the real thing was popped, the cork popped with a vengeance. 1956B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 169 VJ-day was recalled by the Overseas Services in a series of talks. 1968Listener 19 Dec. 811/3 (caption) Revellers on V-J night. 1974J. Wainwright Hard Hit 87 My memories ended with the war... Then—less than a week after V.J.—I married James. 1977[see VE]. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 252/1 On VJ night I was Station Duty Officer. 1982T. Fitzgibbon With Love xi. 176 A little under a month after the first bomb on Hiroshima being dropped, VJ-Day as it was called was officially celebrated on 2 September 1945. |