War end date?

[CinC Battleforce]

Is it posible to change the war end date in the game? I am wanting to write some missions that would take place in late 1945 to early 1947. This is the time fram of what the invasion of japan would have been. So I was just wondering if it was posible

[M. Sarsfield]

Actually, historians vary on opinion as to when the war ended, anyway. 30,000 Jap. troops in China didn't surrender until Nov. 1945 and then they had to be rearmed by their Marine captors when the ChiComs started coming after them. I think the Marines were in China for at least another year fighting ChiComs after Japan's surrender. It wasn't talked about very much in the news, since the major hostilities had ended, but ask any Marine that was there and they'd tell you otherwise. They did make a ribbon bar/medal for the China tour of duty.

[Sailor Steve]

And, even though Japan surrendered, the war wasn't officially over until the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, in 1951.

[M. Sarsfield]

Who all signed that treaty and what were the major points contained within it? Was the one signed aboard the Missouri just a cease fire agreement?

[AVGWarhawk]

From what I remember they signed a surrender agreement and it basically stated the US is taking over Japan. Cease fire. I guess Steves post was the formal official wars end. Hostilities continued after the signing on the Missouri. But thinking deeper, gathering wayward troops, material, formal records collected and examined, courts for war crimes completed. So I guess Steve's 1951 would be he offical end of government and military involvement?

[Penta]

aThe Treaty of San Francisco was signed by:

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam and Japan.

Burma, India and Yugoslavia were also invited, but did not participate.

Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviets attended the conference but didn't sign.

What was signed aboard the Missouri on 2 Sep 45 was the Surrender Agreement. Basically, an armistice prior to the final treaty.

[Penta]

1951 was the end date of the war basically for purposes of ending the Allied occupation of Japan.

Legally, every country marks the official end of war differently.