Representatives of Japan standing aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, September 1945
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Photograph. Representatives of Japan standing aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) prior to signing the Instrument of Surrender; many Allied sailors and soldiers are also on the deck of the ship. Official Caption: "Japanese surrender delegation on deck of U.S. battleship. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, dressed in formal clothes and using a cane, stands in the front row of a group of Japanese emissaries on the deck of the U.S. battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay, just before signing Japan's capitulation documents on Sept. 1, [sic] 1945. Allied leaders and the Japanese delegation signed the papers which marked the complete defeat of Japan. U.S. Navy Photo thru U.S.I.S. Rome (RX7506)." 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Surrenders--Japanese--Japan
Diplomats--Japanese--Japan
Decks (Ships)--American--Japan