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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 |
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