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| A Kairyu-class submarine outside her cave hideaway, Japan, 22 Sep 1945; the men were crew of American cruiser Boston | Chinese General Hu Zongnang reading the Japanese surrender document, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, 22 Sep 1945 | Devastated city of Sasebo, Japan, 23 Sep 1945 | A pile of rubble from a destroyed Buddhist Temple in Nagasaki, Japan, 24 Sep 1945 |
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| Lu Han in Hanoi, French Indochina, late Sep 1945 | Junyo at Sasebo, Japan, with Ha-210 and another Ha-201-class submarine at her side, Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945 | Junyo moored at Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2 | Junyo moored at Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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| View from the island of Junyo's aft aircraft elevator, Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945; note two HA-201-class submarines in background | View from the island of Junyo's forward aircraft elevator, Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945; note US Navy LSTs in background | View of Junyo's island, Sasebo, Japan, 26 Sep 1945; note radar antennas and outward-raked smokestack | Douglas MacArthur with Emperor Showa, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Douglas MacArthur with Emperor Showa, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2 | Aerial view of devastated Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Sep 1945; note Senso-ji temple | Aerial view of the Imperial Palace and neighborhoods to its east, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Sep 1945 | Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan in ruins, 28 Sep 1945 |
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| Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting Admiral William Halsey with a gold star in lieu of a fourth award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal aboard USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor, 28 Sep 1945. | Japanese tank crew bringing a Type 95 Ha-Go light tank to men of Australian 2/4 Armoured Regiment after surrendering Rapopo Airfield, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 28 Sep 1945 | Lieutenant General Lu Han at the Japanese surrender ceremony for northern French Indochina in Hanoi, 28 Sep 1945 | Lieutenant General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi at the Japanese surrender ceremony at Hanoi, French Indochina, 28 Sep 1945 |
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