The one thing I did notice of VJ Day was a photo of vets riding in a vehicle, Ottawa I think it was, and either the indifferent photographer (most likely) or lazy copy editor had a cutline describing them as riding in a jeep. It was, I believe, a Dodge WC or its kin. Typical. It's the same when they refer to any armoured vehicle, with or without tracks, as a "tank." They don't know and they don't care.
Or am I not up to date on accepted nomenclature?
I also had a moment's thought about that "Victory 'in' Japan" on History Ch. - sounds like creeping PC, which is why they have to bring up the internments as often as possible (or was that just the CBC?) - though I suppose the victorious detonation of two nukes was 'in' Japan.
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