| Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, |
| 2 September 1945 |
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| USA C-4627 (Color) -- General of the Army Douglas MacArthur signs
the Instrument of Surrender, as Supreme Allied Commander, on board USS Missouri
(BB-63), 2 September 1945. Behind him are Lieutenant General Jonathan M.
Wainwright, U.S. Army, and Lieutenant General Sit Arthur E. Percival, British
Army, both of whom had just been released from Japanese prison camps. |
| Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National
Archives. |
| Naval
Historical Center -- Online Library of Selected Images of USS
Missouri |
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