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Demobilized Soviet troops at Rzhevsky Railway Station (now Moscow Rizhsky Railway Station), Moscow, Russia, 25 Aug 1945	Heavy seas getting heavier as USS Wasp (Essex-class) steams into a typhoon south of Japan, 25 Aug 1945.

Heavy seas getting heavier as USS Wasp (Essex-class) steams into a typhoon south of Japan, 25 Aug 1945.	USS Wasp (Essex-class) in heavy sea as the ship steamed into a typhoon south of Japan, 25 Aug 1945.

USS Wasp (Essex-class) rolls in heavy sea as the ship steamed into a typhoon south of Japan, 25 Aug 1945.	USS Wasp (Essex-class) taking white water over the bow in a typhoon south of Japan, 25 Aug 1945. She would soon take green water over the bow that collapsed 35 feet of the flight deck.

A captured Japanese paper Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb, reinflated for testing, being wheeled out of the blimp hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States, 27 Aug 1945.	A Japanese harbor pilot being taken aboard USS Missouri from USS Nicholas in a boatswain's chair, 27 Aug 1945

A Japanese naval officer with charts of Sagami and Tokyo Bays arrived aboard USS Missouri for a conference with Admiral William Halsey's staff, 27 Aug 1945	A Japanese officer being transported aboard USS Missouri in a boatswain's chair, 27 Aug 1945

American and Japanese officers reviewed charts of Sagami and Tokyo Bays aboard Missouri, 27 Aug 1945	Captain Yoshihiko Wakasaki of Yokosuka Naval Base aboard USS Missouri for conference with William Halsey, 27 Aug 1945

Colonel E. H. Tench, Lieutenant General Seizo Arisuyu, and Lieutenant General Seiyichi Asmata at Atsugi Airfield, Japan, 27 Aug 1945	Hatsuzakura (background, with depressed guns) and USS Nicholas (foreground) off Tokyo Bay, Japan, 27 Aug 1945 prior to transfer of Japanese translators and harbor pilots to Nicholas; photo taken from USS O'Bannon

Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura off Tokyo Bay with a whaleboat from USS Nicholas alongside to transfer Japanese translators and harbor pilots to Nicholas, 27 Aug 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura off Tokyo Bay with a whaleboat from USS Nicholas alongside to transfer Japanese translators and harbor pilots to Nicholas, 27 Aug 1945. Photo 2 of 2.

Japanese Navy personnel preparing to be transported aboard USS Missouri, 27 Aug 1945; note USS Nicholas in background	Japanese photographer T. Iwamoto attaching film of surrender of Yokosuka Navy Base to a pigeon for transport to Domeo News Agency in Tokyo, Japan, Aug 1945

Takasago Maru at port in Tokyo, Japan, 27 Aug 1945, photographed by US Navy aircraft	Two US Navy officers examining a Japanese officer’s sword on USS Nicholas, 27 Aug 1945 prior to entry into Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony a week later. Note other swords on the table in the foreground.