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General Seishiro Itagaki signing surrender documents aboard HMS Sussex at Singapore, 4 Sep 1945	Japanese RAdm Shigematsu Sakaibara signing the surrender of Wake Island to US Marine BGen Lawson Sanderson aboard USS Levy, 4 Sep 1945. Care was made to ensure the Japanese surrendered Wake to the Marines.

Raising the US flag over Wake Island after Japan's surrender, 4 Sep 1945; Japanese commanding officer Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara in foreground	US Army Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott of 5th Army saluting guidon of Co. L, 3rd Btn, 442nd RCT, Livorno, Italy, 4 Sep 1945; note Presidential Unit Citation banner on guidon

A Curtis SB2C Helldiver flying from USS Intrepid over Tientsin, China (now Tianjin), 5 Sep 1945. Intrepid launched 86 aircraft this day as a show of strength during the demobilization of Japanese forces in the area.	Colonel Louis P. Ely reading surrender terms of Major General Toshio Taga, Okinawa, Japan, 5 Sep 1945

Demobilized Japanese soldiers, Yokohama, Japan, 5 Sep 1945	Former American captives departing a prisoner of war camp, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945

Former American prisoners of war arriving at Kiirun (now Keelung), Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945	Former American prisoners of war being transported from Taihoku (now Taipei) to Kiirun (now Keelung), Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945

Interior of a Japanese prisoner of war camp for American captives, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945	Two TBM-3 aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-26 (USS Santee) at Matsuyama Airfield, Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan, early Sep 1945

Unidentified American servicemen in Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945	USMC Colonel A. D. Cooley and others in Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945

USMC Colonel A. D. Cooley conferring with Japanese officers over the liberation of US prisoners of war, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945	USMC Major Dick Johnson's TBM-3 Avenger aircraft at Matsuyama Airfield, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2; Johnson was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan at the end of the war

USMC Major Dick Johnson's TBM-3 Avenger aircraft at Matsuyama Airfield, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2; Johnson was the first US airman to arrive on Taiwan at the end of the war	Corsair fighter in an elevator aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2

Corsair fighter in an elevator aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Corsair fighter landing on HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945