Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu signing surrender documents, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945
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Photograph. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Official Caption: "Rome 9/11/45. Japanese Foreign Minister signs surrender documents. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the surrender documents on behalf of his government, as Allied military officers and another enemy official look on. The formal capitulation ceremonies took place aboard the U.S. Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, south of Japan's capital, on Sept. 1, 1945 [sic]. U.S. Signal Corps Photo through USIS Rome. RX 7504." Tokyo Bay, Japan. 2 September 1945
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09/02/1945
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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.
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Tōkyō-wan
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35.417
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139.783
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Document signings--Japan
Surrenders--Japanese--Japan
Diplomats--Japanese--Japan