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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. | Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana aboard USS Dunlap off Chichi Jima to surrender the Bonin Islands, 3 Sep 1945 |
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| US Marine celebrating victory over Japan at Guam, 1945 | General Seishiro Itagaki signing surrender documents aboard HMS Sussex at Singapore, 4 Sep 1945 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura signing the surrender document aboard HMS Glory off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945; Vice Admiral Junichi Kusaka and Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee were also present | 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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