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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-472620

Surrender of Japan, 1945


U.S. Third Fleet ships steaming off Tokyo Bay, before entering for the occupation of Japan, August 1945.
Photo may have been taken on 17 August.

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

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Photo Quality Note: The original negative has been somewhat disfigured by caption ditto lettering attaching itself to the image's upper third.

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

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18 February 1999