V-J Day in Los Angeles / Hollywood, California when news is announced of the surrender of Japan, August 14, 1945

Pictures from V-J Day in Los Angeles / Hollywood, California when news is announced of the surrender of Japan - August 14, 1945

Note the intent to surrender was announced by Japan on August 15, 1945, but due to time zone differences it was still August 14th in the US.

Walter Sanders Photographer

LIFE Magazine Archives / WWP-PD

1945, August 14, Pictured are several couples sitting on a military jeep celebrating V-J Day. On the hood of the jeep a woman is saluting and her companion is waving while the other couples are kissing. Some of the men are wearing military uniforms. The car is in front of Roos Bros. clothing store at 6320 Hollywood Boulevard. (Herald Examiner Collection).  Thank you to LAPL.

Wikipedia explains,

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 II, 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 – 15 August 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, 14 August 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 II.