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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96780 USS Missouri (BB-63) Steaming to her anchorage in Tokyo Bay for the formal signing of the Japanese surrender, 29 August 1945. A destroyer is alongside Missouri, and USS Iowa is beyond. This photograph was flown to Washington, DC, directly from Japan, arriving on 2 September 1945, the day the Japanese surrender was signed. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 158KB; 610 x 765 pixels

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7 January 1999