The Flower Letters #24/Audrey Rose Collection🌹

Letter #24🌹

DISPATCHMENT POINTS:
During World War 2, the United States Army employed a system called the Adjusted Service Rating Score, also known as "the point system," to determine which soldiers were eligible for repatriation and discharge after the war in Europe ended. 

V~J DAY:
Victory over Japan Day 
(also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War 2, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made August 15 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, August 14 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to 2 September 1945, when the surrender document was signed, officially ending World War 2.

V~E DAY:
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official surrender of all German military operations.

LITTLE BOY:
"Little Boy" was the codename for the first atomic bomb used in warfare, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. It was a gun-type weapon containing enriched uranium-235. The bomb was delivered by the B-29 bomber Enola Gay. 

FAT MAN:
Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was the design of the nuclear weapon the United States used for seven of the first eight nuclear weapons ever detonated in history. It is also the most powerful design to ever be used in warfare.