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Photo #: 80-G-386393

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Document surrendering the Bonin Islands, signed on board USS Dunlap (DD-384), off Chichi Jima on 3 September 1945.
Japanese Army Lieutenant General Yoshio Tachibana signed on behalf of Japan. Commodore John H. Magruder, Jr., was the United States' signatory.

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

Online Image: 97KB; 405 x 765 pixels

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1 March 1999