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USS Missouri leading USS Iowa into Tokyo Bay, Japan, 30 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2; note destroyer USS Nicholas in escort	USS Missouri leading USS Iowa into Tokyo Bay, Japan, 30 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2; note USS Nicholas and USS O'Bannon in escort	USS San Diego at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 30 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2	USS San Diego at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 30 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2

Vice Admiral Michitoro Tozuka immediately after formally surrendering the Yokosuka Naval Base to US Navy Rear Admiral Robert B. Carney, Yokosuka, Japan, 30 Aug 1945	Victory celebration in Hong Kong, 30 Aug 1945; photo taken by HMCS Ontario Leading Photographer Sydney H. Draper	Victory parade in Hong Kong, 30 Aug 1945; photo taken by HMCS Ontario Leading Photographer Sydney H. Draper	Douglas MacArthur embracing Jonathan Wainwright, Hotel New Grand, Yokohama, Japan, 31 Aug 1945

Japanese pilot Lieutenant H. Nomura aboard USS West Virginia to help with the navigation of Tokyo Bay, Japan, 31 Aug 1945	Officers of submarine I-400, circa late Aug 1945	US Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft over Mokapu Point, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 31 Aug 1945	USS Wasp (Essex-class) hangar deck set up to accommodate 810 wounded transferred from the fleet for transportation to Hawaii after Wasp was ordered to the rear with typhoon damage to the flight deck, 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.	119 B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 73rd Bomb Wing lined up on Baker runway, Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Sep 1945 with 35 more B-29s seen in the periphery.	A Japanese prisoner of war bowing to camp commander Lieutenant Harold F. Gannon, Guam, Aug-Sep 1945	A recovered ballast dropping apparatus from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb being examined by an American technician. He is removing the battery case to expose the components of the barometer box beneath.

A Russian family (Mrs. Mary Mescheriakoff, son Tom, and daughter) at a internment camp in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Sep 1945	A7M2 Reppu fighter at rest in a hangar, Yokosuka, Japan, Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	A7M2 Reppu fighter at rest in a hangar, Yokosuka, Japan, Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Aerial photo of Hiroshima, Japan shortly after the atomic bombing, Aug-Sep 1945