In late March 1945, "King George V" and "Howe" were sent to the Pacific with other Royal Navy vessels as a separate group to function with the U.S. Navy's Task Force 57. On 4 May 1945, "King George V" and "Howe" led a forty-five-minute bombardment of Japanese air facilities in the Ryukyu Islands. "King George V" fired her guns in anger for the last time in a night bombardment of Hamamatsu on 29 and 30 July 1945. "Duke of York" and "Anson" were also dispatched to the Pacific, but arrived too late to participate in hostilities. On 15 August "Duke of York" and "Anson "accepted the surrender of Japanese forces occupying Hong Kong and, along with "King George V", were present for the official Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. Following the end of World War II, the ships were phased out of service and by 1957 all of the ships had been sold off for scrap, a process that was completed by 1958.