U.S. Fleet Admiral Nimitz signing Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945

Description: 

Photograph. U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz signing Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) as other Allied military officers look on. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/12/45--U.S. Fleet Admiral Nimitz signs Japanese surrender document for U.S.--U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Allied Naval Forces in the Pacific, signs the Japanese surrender document for the U.S. on Sept. 1, 1945 [sic] aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Behind Admiral Nimitz, U.S. General of the Army Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Allied Commander, stands with his arm around Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, aboard whose flagship the ceremony occurred. Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Nimitz, looks on. U.S.Navy Photo thru U.S.I.S. Rome. (RX 7509)."”Tokyo Bay, Japan. 2 September 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.490
Date: 
09/02/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
USS Missouri (BB-63)
Campaign / Event: 
Occupation of Japan (1945-52)
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Document signings--Japan
Admirals--American--Japan
Military officers--American--Japan
Military officers--Japan
Surrenders--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
Admirals--American--Japan
Military officers--American--Japan
Military officers--Japan
Surrenders--Japanese--Japan