Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945
Gift In Memory "Ham" Hamilton, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). View is from behind the Allied delegates. "Jap signing surrender papers as general MacArthur looks on." Tokyo Bay, Japan. 2 September 1945
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Photographs taken during the service of Ladelle A. Hamilton in the USAAF in the PTO in WWII.
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TÅkyÅ-wan
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35.417
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139.783
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