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Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 4 of 5	Xu Yongchang, Bruce Fraser, Kuzma Derevyanko, Thomas Blamey, L. Moore Cosgrave, and Jacques Le Clerc aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945. Note the wire recorder upper left.	General Seishiro Itagaki signing surrender documents aboard HMS Sussex at Singapore, 4 Sep 1945	US Army Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott of 5th Army saluting guidon of Co. L, 3rd Btn, 442nd RCT, Livorno, Italy, 4 Sep 1945; note Presidential Unit Citation banner on guidon

Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura signing the surrender document aboard HMS Glory off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945; Vice Admiral Junichi Kusaka and Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee were also present	George Patton and Georgy Zhukov, Berlin, Germany, 7 Sep 1945	Lieutenant General Stilwell accepted Japanese surrender at US Tenth Army Headquarters, Okinawa, 7 Sep 1945. Note Japanese commander Lt General Toshiro Nomi at left in pith helmet.	Leaflets dropped by Royal New Zealand Air Force on Nauru and Ocean Island (now Banaba), 8 Sept 1945. The leaflets urge Japanese soldiers to stop fighting and surrender. Page 1 of 2.

Leaflets dropped by Royal New Zealand Air Force on Nauru and Ocean Island (now Banaba), 8 Sept 1945. The leaflets urge Japanese soldiers to stop fighting and surrender. Page 2 of 2.	Admiral Thomas Kinkaid (with glasses) and Lieutenant General John Hodge signing the Japanese surrender document, General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 9 Sep 1945	Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey signing the surrender for Japanese forces throughout the Dutch East Indies, Morotai, 9 Sep 1945.	Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey witnessing Japanese Second Army Lt General Fusataro Teshima signing the instrument of surrender for Japanese forces throughout the Dutch East Indies, Morotai, 9 Sep 1945. Photo 1 of 2

Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey witnessing Japanese Second Army Lt General Fusataro Teshima signing the instrument of surrender for Japanese forces throughout the Dutch East Indies, Morotai, 9 Sep 1945. Photo 2 of 2	Chinese General He Yingqin signing the Japanese surrender document at the Chinese Military Academy in Nanjing, China, 9 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	Chinese General He Yingqin signing the Japanese surrender document at the Chinese Military Academy in Nanjing, China, 9 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	General First Class He Yingqin, General Second Class Gu Zhutong, and Lieutenant General Xiao Yisu inspecting the Japanese instrument of surrender, Nanjing, China, 9 Sep 1945

He Yingqin inspecting the Japanese surrender document at the Chinese Military Academy in Nanjing, China, 9 Sep 1945; note US representative General Megrow and General Gu Zuodong	He Yingqin presenting the signed instrument of surrender to Chiang Kaishek, Nanjing, China, 9 Sep 1945	Instrument of Surrender for the Japanese Second Army signed by Lt General Fusataro Teshima for the Japanese and General Sir Thomas Blamey for the Australian Military Forces, 9 Sep 1945 at Morotai.	Japanese China Expeditionary Army Chief of Staff Asasaburo Kobayashi surrendering to He Yingqin, Nanjing, China, 9 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 3