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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-490368

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Japanese Navy Captain Masanori Shiga salutes as he boards USS Levy (DE-162), off Mili Atoll in the southeastern Marshalls Group, to surrender the Japanese base there, 22 August 1945.
Facing the camera, at right, is Captain H. B. Grow, USNR, senior U.S. officer at the ceremonies.

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

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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1 March 1999