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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-332969

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Personnel at Naval Air Station, Beaufort, South Carolina, celebrate news of Japan's surrender, 14 August 1945.

This appears to be an operations office, with aircraft status board in background containing information on four identifiable individual planes: N2S-3 (Bureau # 07742), N2S-3 (Bureau # 07720), FM-1 (Bureau # 46901--may be an FM-2) and F4U-4 (Bureau # 82085)

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

Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 580 pixels

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12 February 1999