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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-490369

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Japanese Navy Captain Masanori Shiga signs the surrender document for Mili Atoll, Marshalls, on board USS Levy (DE-162), 22 August 1945.
To the right of Capt. Shiga are (left to right):
Lieutenant E.R. Harris, USNR;
Lieutenant Colonel G.V. Burnett, USMCR, and
Captain H. B. Grow, USNR, senior U.S. officer present.

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

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1 March 1999