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| View of Junyo's island, Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945; note radar antennas and outward-raked smokestack | Douglas MacArthur with Emperor Showa, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Douglas MacArthur with Emperor Showa, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2 | Aerial view of devastated Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Sep 1945; note Senso-ji temple |
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| Aerial view of the Imperial Palace and neighborhoods to its east, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Sep 1945 | Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| 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. | Japanese tank crew bringing a Type 95 Ha-Go light tank to men of Australian 2/4 Armoured Regiment after surrendering Rapopo Airfield, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| Lieutenant General Lu Han at the Japanese surrender ceremony for northern French Indochina in Hanoi, 28 Sep 1945 | Lieutenant General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi at the Japanese surrender ceremony at Hanoi, French Indochina, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| San Francisco off Korea, 28 Sep 1945; note SOC aircraft on catapults | Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 | Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 | Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 | Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945; note National Diet Building | Accused Japanese war criminals under guard while awaiting transfer to Stanley Prison, Hong Kong, 29 Sep 1945 |
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