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Japanese Surrender on the USS Missouri
A photo of the Japanese surrendering on the deck of the USS
Missouri Battleship on September 2, 1945, while the ship was
anchored in Tokyo Bay.
Photo Credit: United States Government Archives
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The instrument of surrender terminating the second world
war was signed in this ship, 2 September 1945 East Longitude
date, while she lay at anchor in Tokyo Bay.
The Allied Representatives were:
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
United States of America
General Hsu Yung-Chang
Republic of China
Admiralty Sir Bruce A. Fraser
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Lieutenant General Kuzma Nikolaevich Derevyanko
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
General Sir Thomas Blamey
Commonwealth of Australia
Colonel L. Moore Cosgrave
Canada
General Jacques Le Clerk
Republic of France
(Air?) Vice Marshall Leonard M. (Isitt?)
Dominion of New Zealand
Admiral C.E.L. Helfrich
Kingdom of the Netherlands
With their staff and observing flag and general officers.
The Japanese Representatives were:
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japanese Foreign Minister
General Yoshijiro Umezu
Chief of Staff, Japanese Army Headquarters
With nine staff and observing officers.
At 0904, the Japanese representatives signed the
instrument of their country's surrender.
At 0905, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers signed for
all the nations joined in the war again Japan. he
was accompanied by Lieutenant General Jonathan M.
Wainwright, the commanding general at the fall of
Corregidor in 1942,and by Lieutenant General Arthur
Percival, the commanding general at the fall of
Singapore in the same year.
At 0912, fleet Admiralty Chester W. Nimitz signed for the
United States. He was accompanied by Admiral William
F. Halsey, commander of the United States Third Fleet and
by Rear Admiralty Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief
of Staff to Admiralty Nimitz. Representatives of the
other allied nations then signed. This completed the
ceremony of surrender.
See also:
Photos of the USS Missouri Battleship Tour
About the USS Missouri
USS Arizona Memorial
USS Bowfin Submarine Tour
Photos of Pearl Harbor
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