With the war over and his job done, Admiral John S. McCain Sr. returned to his home in California and died on September 6, 1945 – just four days after witnessing the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He had earlier joked that he was planning to celebrate the Allied victory in the Pacific by creating three new cocktails named “Zeke,” “Jill,” and “Judy” after types of Japanese planes. “Each time you drink one, you can say ‘splash one Judy’ or “splash one Zeke,” McCain said.