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Wendy Pamela Rossini, recently freed Australian internee of Stanley Internment Camp, displaying the typical daily rice ration for her family of 5 during Japanese occupation, Hong Kong, Aug-Sep 1945	XB-32 Dominator bomber of USAAF 386th Bombardment Squadron at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945

XB-32 Dominator bomber of USAAF 386th Bombardment Squadron refueling at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, Aug-Sep 1945	J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity test site during a press visit, New Mexico, United States, 1 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity test site during a press visit, New Mexico, United States, 1 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Two TBM-3 aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-26 (USS Santee) at Matsuyama Airfield, Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan, early 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

American photograph of after bodies (motors) for Japanese Kaiten human guided torpedoes taken at Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan, 7 Sep 1945	Ha-102, Ha-104, and Ha-101 (listed left to right) at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 7 Sep 1945; note five Kairyu submarines on left side of photograph

I-369 (center left), RO-58 (center), three Kairyu-class midget submarines (alongside RO-58), and Ha-101 (far left, mostly obscured) at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 7 Sep 1945	I-369 and RO-58 at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 7 Sep 1945; note the three Kairyu-class submarines at right

Lt General Toshiro Nomi (in pith helmet) at US 10th Army headquarters to formally surrender all Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands to US Lt General Joseph Stillwell, Yontan, Okinawa, Japan, 7 Sep 1945	Lt General Toshiro Nomi signing the formal surrender all Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands to US Lt General Joseph Stillwell at US 10th Army headquarters, Yontan, Okinawa, Japan, 7 Sep 1945

Koryu Type D submarine at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 8 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 3	Koryu Type D submarine at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 8 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 3

Koryu Type D submarine at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 8 Sep 1945, photo 3 of 3	Admiral Thomas Kinkaid (with glasses) and Lieutenant General John Hodge signing the Japanese surrender document, General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 9 Sep 1945

Japanese flag being lowered during the surrender ceremony at the General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 9 Sep 1945	US flag being raised during the surrender ceremony at the General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 9 Sep 1945