Japanese General Yoshijirō Umezu signing surrender documents on the U.S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, September 1945

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Photograph. Japanese General Yoshijirō Umezu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender while U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and other military officers look on. Official Caption: "Rome 9/11/45 Japanese General signs unconditional surrender documents. Japanese General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, signs Japan's surrender documents in the presence of the U.S. Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland (center), Chief of Staff to U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (behind microphones), Supreme Allied Commander, and other Allied military officers. The capitulation ceremonies took place aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, south of Japanese capital, on Sept. 1, 1945 [sic]. U.S. Signal Corps photo thru U.S.I.S.Rome (RX 7507)." Tokyo Bay, Japan. 2 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.768
Date: 
09/02/1945
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Hometown: 
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Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
USS Missouri (BB-63)
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POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Document signings--Japan
Surrenders--Japanese--Japan
Generals--American--Japan
Generals--Japanese--Japan
Collection Level: 
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: 
Tōkyō-wan
Latitude: 
35.417
Longitude: 
139.783
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Document signings--Japan
Surrenders--Japanese--Japan
Generals--American--Japan
Generals--Japanese--Japan