General Douglas MacArthur signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945

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Photograph. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Official Caption: "Rome-9/11/45. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, signs Japanese surrender document. U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, signs the Japanese surrender document Sept. 1, 1945 [sic] aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. Behind General MacArthur are U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright (left), hero of Bataan and Corregidor who was found in a Japanese prisoner of war camp Aug. 20, 1945, and British Lieutenant General Arthur E. Percival, who was forced to surrender Singapore to the Japanese. Both were liberated from the Japanese prison camp at Sian, Manchuria, by U.S. Paratroops and Soviet forces. Both were flown to Tokyo at General MacArthur's invitation to witness the surrender ceremonies. U.S. Signal Corps Photo thru U. S. I. S. Rome (RX7505)." Tokyo Bay, Japan. 2 September 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.776
Date: 
09/02/1945
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Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
USS Missouri (BB-63)
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Topical Subjects: 
Generals--American--Japan
Document signings--Japan
Generals--British--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: 
Generals--American--Japan
Document signings--Japan
Generals--British--Japan