British General Percival and U.S. General Wainwright after release from Japanese prison, Japan, 1945

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Photograph. Group portrait of U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (center) with his arms around the shoulders of British General Sir Archibald E. Percival (left) and U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/12/45. Supreme Allied Commander with Generals released from Japanese prison. U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (center), Supreme Allied Commander stands with British General Sir Archibald E. Percival (left) and U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright, former Chief of Staff to General MacArthur, at his headquarters in Yokohama, Japan's principal seaport. General MacArthur had invited both men, who had been held prisoner by the Japanese for several years, to be present at the enemy's formal surrender, which took place aboard the U.S. Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, south of Japan's capital, on Sept. 1, 1945. General Percival had been forced to surrender to the Japanese at Singapore, and General Wainwright in the Philippines. U.S. Signal Corps Photo thru U.S.I.S. Rome. (RX 7513)." Yokohama, Japan. 12 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.528
Date: 
09/12/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--Japan
Generals--British--Japan
Military uniforms--American--Japan
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Yokohama
Latitude: 
35.467
Longitude: 
139.633
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--Japan
Generals--British--Japan
Military uniforms--American--Japan