It's now 65 years since Australians welcomed the end of the Second World War. These photographs of celebrations in Hobart were published in the Melbourne Age.
R.A.A.F. officer dancing across Macquarie St, Hobart
Source: State Library of Victoria (more below)
NOTES from the AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day
VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day, also referred to as VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, is celebrated on 15 August. This date commemorates Japan’s acceptance of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender 14 August 1945. For Australians, it meant that the Second World War was finally over.
The following day, 15 August, is usually referred to as VP Day. In August 1945 Australian governments gazetted a public holiday as VP Day and most newspapers reported it as such. However, the governments of Britain, the United States and New Zealand preferred VJ Day. It is not true, as some have claimed, that the day was originally called VJ and that the name was surreptitiously changed later.
STATE LIBRARY of VICTORIA
[Victory celebrations in Tasmania] [picture]
* Date(s): [ca. 1945]
* Terms of use/Copyright: Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Cite as: Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria.
* Description: 6 photographs : gelatin silver ; 21.0 x 25.0 cm. or smaller.
* Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H98.101/355; H98.101/356; H98.101/357; H98.101/358; H98.101/359; H98.101/360
* Subjects: Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- Officers ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace ; V-J Day, 1945 -- Tasmania ; Gelatin silver photographs ;
* Contents/Summary: Women dancing in circle in front of Town Hall; R.A.A.F. officer dancing across Macquarie St, Hobart; Women and man holding a baby waving Union Jack, Launceston; Couple dancing in a circle of people, Hobart; Children up a lamp post over the crowd; Crowd in Hobart.
* Notes: Stamped/inscribed on verso.
Gift of The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 1976.
IMAGES
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/argus/gid/slv-pic-aaa32635
WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day
