August 14th, 2011 at 11:31AM

President Harry Truman announcing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Three days after Hiroshima an atomic bomb would again be dropped, this time on Nagasaki.

Five more days later and Japan would surrender.

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    It was 66 years ago yesterday when Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in WWII. This short clip is from a week before...
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