Japanese representatives standing on the deck of the USS Missouri (BB-63), Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Representatives of Japan standing on the deck of the USS Missouri (BB-63) prior to signing the Instrument of Surrender; Allied military officers standing in background. Official Caption: "Rome-9/11/45. Japanese officials arrive aboard U.S. battleship for surrender ceremony. The Japanese military and diplomatic delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (with cane) and General Yoshijiro Umezu (Fr. Rt.) Chief of the Imperial General staff, arrive aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri to attend formal surrender ceremonies, as Allied military officers look on. The Japanese capitulation documents were signed on Sept. 1, 1945 [sic], aboard the 45,000-ton battleship in Tokyo Bay, south of the Japanese capital. U.S. Signal Corps Photo thru U. S. I. S. Rome (RX7508)." Tokyo Bay, Japan. 2 September 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.781
Date: 
09/02/1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
USS Missouri (BB-63)
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POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Diplomats--Japanese--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: 
Diplomats--Japanese--Japan
Surrenders--Japanese--Japan