Eighty years ago this week, Japan surrendered after nearly four years of war in the Asia-Pacific. For Australia, this meant the end of not only the war in the Pacific, but also the Second World War that had begun six years earlier, in September 1939.
New research shows WWII dominates Australians’ knowledge of military history. But big gaps remain
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