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Photo #: 80-G-338187

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Former U.S. Navy prisoners of war on board USS Reeves (APD-52) in Tokyo Bay, Japan, after being transferred from USS Benevolence (AH-13), 30 August 1945. They had just been liberated from the Nisson Mills Camp # 2, in the Tokyo Area.

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

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Image posted 26 February 1999
Page coding upgraded 3 December 2000