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US Army Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott of 5th Army saluting guidon of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 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.

Former American prisoners of war arriving at Kiirun (now Keelung), 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

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	12 Liberator bombers flew in four V formations over the Japanese surrender ceremony at Okinawa, Japan, 7 Sep 1945; note Japanese guns in center and M26 Pershing tanks in left corner

A Kairyu-class submarine at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 7 Sep 1945; note grafitti drawn by American personnel	American photograph of after bodies (motors) for Japanese Kaiten human guided torpedoes taken at Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan, 7 Sep 1945

Captain Jesse McClure (at microphone) relieving Captain George Dufek as commanding officer of escort carrier USS Bogue at Alameda, California, United States, 7 Sep 1945.	Damage crews dousing the flames after a P-47N Thunderbolt of the 413th Fighter Squadron belly-landed at Central Field, Iwo Jima, Japan, 7 Sep 1945.

George Patton and Georgy Zhukov, Berlin, Germany, 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

Japanese surrender ceremony at the headquarters of US 10th Army, Okinawa, Japan, 7 Sep 1945; note Japanese guns by flagpole, US M26 heavy tanks lower left, US self-propelled guns upper left	Lieutenant General Stilwell accepted Japanese surrender at US Tenth Army Headquarters, Okinawa, 7 Sep 1945. Note Japanese commander Lt General Toshiro Nomi at left in pith helmet.