Caption   Newsreel of Japanese signing formal instruments of surrender aboard USS Missouri ww2dbase
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WW2-Era Place Name Tokyo Bay, Japan
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Model 139 prototype aircraft at rest, circa mid-1930s; this design was the export version of US Army Air Corps' B-10 bombers




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