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The bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Wasp (Essex-class) packed with clusters of sea bags filled with supplies to be dropped by parachute on prisoner of war camps holding US servicemen in Japan, 28 Aug 1945	United States Navy Commander Hiram Cassedy (left) and Japanese Navy Commander Toshio Kusaka (center) on the deck of the Japanese submarine I-400 alongside USS Proteus, Sagami Bay, Japan, 28 Aug 1945.

View of Remote PPI Scope (set to 10-mile scale) of USS Cumberland Bay as the ship entered Tokyo Bay, Japan, 28 Aug 1945	Allied prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama cheered as US Navy and other Allied personnel arrived to rescue them, 29 Aug 1945

American physicist Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned right hand 9 days after he had manually stopped a prompt critical fission reaction during an accident with a plutonium sphere, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 29 Aug 1945; he would die from radiation poisoning 16 days after this photograph was taken	Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey shaking hands aboard battleship USS South Dakota, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 29 Aug 1945

I-401 alongside of USS Proteus, Yokosuka, Japan, 29 Aug 1945	I-401 and I-14 alongside of USS Proteus (far left), Yokosuka, Japan, 29 Aug 1945

Ki-100-I-Ko fighters of 59th Sentai of 2nd Chutai of the Japanese Army at rest, Japan, 29 Aug 1945	Mugshots of Amon Göth, 29 Aug 1945

PB2Y Coronado seaplane carrying US Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arriving at Tokyo Bay 29 Aug 1945 for the surrender ceremonies five days later. USS Missouri is in the center background.	Recently liberated American prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama, Japan, circa 29 Aug 1945

US flag raising at Yokosuka Navy Base, Japan, 29 Aug 1945	USS Natoma Bay and USS Anzio at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 29 Aug 1947

USS Proteus, I-400, I-401, and I-14, Yokosuka, Japan, 29 Aug 1945	USS Proteus, I-401, and I-14, Yokosuka, Japan, 29 Aug 1945

USS Sunfish flies her battle flag as she departs Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 29 Aug 1945; USS Pompon in foreground, photo taken from USS Pipefish	Battleship USS Missouri in Sagami Wan, Japan, 30 Aug 1945. Note Mount Fuji, Missouri flying Admiral William Halsey’s four-star flag at the after mast, and the US flag at the unusual location on the main mast.

Bow of the battleship USS Missouri in Sagami Wan, Japan, 30 Aug 1945. Note the Jack flying from the jackstaff and Mount Fuji between Missouri’s bow and anchor chain.	British troops disembarking at Hong Kong, 30 Aug 1945