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Australian soldier Frederick Bishop driving Japanese Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi to the Wom Airstrip, New Guinea for the formal New Guinea surrender ceremony, 13 Sep 1945	Japanese General Hatazo Adachi, circa 13 Sep 1945

Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi symbolically surrendered his sword to Australian Major General H. C. H. Robertson at Wom Airstrip, New Guinea, 13 Sep 1945	Jonathan Wainwright decorated with Medal of Honor by US President Harry Truman, 14 Sep 1945

José Laurel being questioned by US Army non-commissioned officer of Filipino ethnicity Staff Sergeant Van Millori at No. 2 Osaka Airport, Osaka, Japan, 15 Sep 1945	British Rear Admiral Cecil Harcourt reading the terms of surrender to the Japanese representatives, Government House, Hong Kong, 16 Sep 1945. At left is Chinese Major General Pan Hwa Kuei and far left is Adm Bruce Fraser

Lu Han in Hanoi, French Indochina, late Sep 1945	Douglas MacArthur with Emperor Showa, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2

Douglas MacArthur with Emperor Showa, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting Admiral William Halsey with a gold star in lieu of a fourth award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal aboard USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor, 28 Sep 1945.

Lieutenant General Lu Han at the Japanese surrender ceremony for northern French Indochina in Hanoi, 28 Sep 1945	Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedong celebrating the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chongqing, China, Sep 1945

German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and his son as prisoners of war, circa 1945; the guard at right of photo was US Army Staff Sergeant Bisecha	Graves Erskine with girl scout Shirley Barton, 1945

Japanese General Kenji Doihara being arrested shortly after the war, 1945	John Dorle, Harry Clarke, Milton Sandberg, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Hamamoto, and Akira Muto during a break from court, Oct 1945; note the autographs by Yamashita, Hamamoto, and Muto

King George VI of the United Kingdom inspecting Japanese-American troops of US 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Cecina area, Italy, date unknown	Mugshot of George von Küchler, late 1945

Portrait of Field Marshal Lord Montgomery of Alamein, 1945	Portrait of Walter Dornberger, mid- to late-1945