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The US Third Fleet steaming in tight formation for a photo opportunity as close to 200 airplanes fly overhead, 22 Aug 1945. Photo taken from USS Wasp (Essex-class). Note five Light Carriers.	James Forrestal, Henry Stimson, George Marshall, Ernest King, Henry Arnold, and others at a Medal of Honor presentation ceremony, White House, Washington DC, United States, 23 Aug 1945

A6M Zero fighters on an airfield near Tokyo, Japan, late Aug 1945	Chiang Kaishek ratifying the United Nations Charter, 24 Aug 1945

HMS Formidable and HMS Implacable entering Sydney harbor, Australia, 24 Aug 1945	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.