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Wang Yaowu, Lu Han, Zhang Fakui, He Yingqin, Tang Enbo, Du Yuming, Xiao Yisu, and an unidentified high ranking US Army officer after the surrender ceremony in Zhijiang, Hunan Province, China, 21 Aug 1945	Aboard his flagship, USS Missouri, Adm William Halsey toasts Japan’s surrender with RAdm Robert Carney, Royal Navy Capt JPL Reid, Royal Navy VAdm Sir Bernard Rawlings, VAdm John McCain, and RAdm Wilder Baker, 22 Aug 1945	Aboard his flagship, USS Missouri, Admiral William Halsey receives Royal Navy Vice Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings, Vice Admiral John McCain, and Rear Admiral Wilder Baker to celebrate Japan’s surrender, 22 Aug 1945.	George Patton riding the horse Favory Africa in Sankt Martin, Austria, 22 Aug 1945

James Forrestal, Henry Stimson, George Marshall, Ernest King, Henry Arnold, and others at a Medal of Honor presentation ceremony, White House, Washington DC, United States, 23 Aug 1945	Chiang Kaishek ratifying the United Nations Charter, 24 Aug 1945	American physicist Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned right hand 9 days after he had manually stopped a prompt critical fission reaction during an accident with a plutonium sphere, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 29 Aug 1945; he would die from radiation poisoning 16 days after this photograph was taken	Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey shaking hands aboard battleship USS South Dakota, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 29 Aug 1945

Mugshots of Amon Göth, 29 Aug 1945	PB2Y Coronado seaplane carrying US Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arriving at Tokyo Bay 29 Aug 1945 for the surrender ceremonies five days later. USS Missouri is in the center background.	Chester Nimitz, William Halsey, Oscar Badger, and Edwin Layton listening to Japanese doctor Y. Kimura during a tour of Yokosuka naval hospital, 30 Aug 1945. The hospital had been converted to treat Allied POWs.	Douglas MacArthur arriving at Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo, Japan, 30 Aug 1945; note Major General Joseph Swing, Lieutenat General Richard Sutherland, and General Robert Eichelberger

Douglas MacArthur embracing Jonathan Wainwright, Hotel New Grand, Yokohama, Japan, 31 Aug 1945	Vice Admiral John McCain arriving aboard carrier USS Shangri-La for Task Force 38 change of command ceremonies, 31 Aug 1945. Note the disbelieving look from one officer seeing McCain’s famous hat for the first time.	American correspondents interviewed Toguri, Sep 1945	Chinese Army General Chen Cheng during a victory celebration immediately after the Japanese surrender, China, Aug 1945

Commodore Dixie Kiefer at his desk at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, 1945. Note the cast on his arm from injuries sustain several months earlier aboard USS Ticonderoga.	Desolated landscape of Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic detonation, post-war, photo 1 of 2; note Paul Tibbet's autograph	Fumimaro Konoe and Mitsumasa Yonai, Japan, circa mid to late 1945	Identification photo of Lieutenant Donald Arthur Gary, circa 1945