Japanese sign Surrender Documents

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Wed, 09/12/1945

An Instrument of Surrender was signed at Singapore on 12 September 1945 at 0341 hours (GMT) by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, and General Seishiro Itagaki, the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces Southern Region in South-East Asia.

A formal ceremony for the surrender of Japan had been conducted aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay on 2 September 1945.
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Above, the Allied delegation, led by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, face the Japanese delegation led by General Itagaki across the table, for the signing of the surrender at Singapore.(Image - © IWM (A 30495)

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