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Friday, 03 September 2010
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On this day in 1945, World War II combat ended in the Pacific Theater when the Instrument of Surrender was signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu and accepted by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Commander in the Southwest Pacific and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The National Archives provides scanned images of the 2-page original document.Below, looking into the fountain at the WWII Memorial.
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