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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-472629 Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945 The Japanese delegation receives honors as they depart USS Missouri (BB-63) at the conclusion of the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945. General Yoshijiro Umezu is in the center, saluting. Photographed by Lieutenant Barrett Gallagher, USNR, from atop Missouri's forward 16-inch gun turret. Note photographers on platforms in the background, band in the lower left and "seahorse" insignia on the shoulder by the Marine in lower right. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 105KB; 620 x 665 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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28 January 1999