End of WWII in 1947.. or later?

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Originally Posted by MH

My guess is that certain laws passed during the war had been still needed to take care of things in Germany and Japan.
Who knows maybe the whole Russian issue was unclear as well.
One would have to dig into which laws where affected by this declaration to get better picture.

I agree with you here I think the reasoning was to allow the US to afford troops overseas and to maintain stability also the US needed to have at least something in Europe to counter the Soviets and there "allies"(pre WARSAW pact of course)

Few people know that in some places like Italy we needed troops to prevent Albanian communists from getting trough the Italian border I did not know about this until I read the book "About Face" by a man who served in the Army from 1947-1972 he started as an enlisted man and became an officer he spent his first years in Italy dealing with that border situation.

I'd assume that the Soviets did the similar things fro the same reason.

Everyone knew that a war between the former allies was very possible and they had to find some way to keep money flowing.

The Japanese holdouts are a different story they had no central origination like an organized force would have like the various insurgencies in Iraq did some where run by former Baath and where part of the in exile government.The holdout Japanese where merely troops that refused to believe that Japan had surrendered so they kept fighting because they believed that they where merely cut off and that they should keep fighting something most good military troops will do if they are not aware or disbelieve surrender occurred.A common technique to get them to understand the truth was to have a relative or member of their former unit come and call out to them over loud speaker so they could hear the truth from a person that they trusted.

Wars are funny in this way often they "end" but many times the issues that caused the war in the first place is never solved take WWI for example the region in which that war was started there many of the issues still have not been solved almost 100 years later.The Chinese and Russians fought over borders way back in 16th century and they still disagree about what belongs to whom.