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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-339379

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Two Third Fleet heavy cruisers anchored in Sagami Wan, outside of Tokyo Bay, Japan, 28 August 1945.
Closest ship is USS Quincy (CA-71). The other is USS Boston (CA-69).
Photographed by Lt. G.D. Rogers, of USS Shangri-La (CV-38).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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19 February 1999