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US Navy Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Sr. with his son Commander John S. McCain, Jr. together for the last time in Tokyo Bay, Japan on the day of the Surrender Ceremony, 2 Sep 1945	USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2

USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 2 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood arriving aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945

Xu Yongchang (far right) and the Chinese delegation aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945	Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 5

Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 5	Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 3 of 5

Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 4 of 5	Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 5 of 5

Xu Yongchang, Bruce Fraser, Kuzma Derevyanko, Thomas Blamey, L. Moore Cosgrave, and Jacques Le Clerc aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945. Note the wire recorder upper left.	Escort Carrier USS Attu and Fleet Carrier USS Shangri-La (left) exchanging personnel and equipment by high wire while at sea, 3 Sep 1945. Note F4U Corsairs and SB2C Helldiver aircraft on Attu’s deck.

Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana aboard USS Dunlap off Chichi Jima to surrender the Bonin Islands, 3 Sep 1945	USS Shangri-La approaching USS Attu (not in photo) to transfer personnel and supplies, Pacific Ocean, 3 Sep 1945

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