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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58406

Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945


Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, and Pacific Ocean Areas, signs the Instrument of Surrender as United States representative, during the surrender ceremonies on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945.
Standing immediately behind him are (from back to front):
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander;
Admiral William F. Halsey, Commander, Third Fleet, and
Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman, Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Nimitz.
Representatives of the other Allied powers are at right.

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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27 January 1999