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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. | General Tomoyuki Yamashita (center on near side of table) at the surrender ceremony at Baguio, Philippines, 3 Sep 1945; note Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, seated, second from left |
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| Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana aboard USS Dunlap off Chichi Jima to surrender the Bonin Islands, 3 Sep 1945 | US Marine celebrating victory over Japan at Guam, 1945 |
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| 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 |
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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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| US Army Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott of 5th Army saluting guidon of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 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. |
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| Colonel Louis P. Ely reading surrender terms of Major General Toshio Taga, Okinawa, Japan, 5 Sep 1945 | Demobilized Japanese soldiers, Yokohama, Japan, 5 Sep 1945 |
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| Former American captives departing a prisoner of war camp, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945 | Former American prisoners of war arriving at Kiirun (now Keelung), Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945 |
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| Former American prisoners of war being transported from Taihoku (now Taipei) to Kiirun (now Keelung), Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945 | Interior of a Japanese prisoner of war camp for American captives, Taiwan, 5 Sep 1945 |
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