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Signing of Japanese Surrender

Name: Signing of Japanese Surrender – Japan factsheet records
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Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945Date range

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Chronological records

1945

Yoshijiro Umezu2 September 1945

Tokyo Bay · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Umezu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters aboard USS Missouri.

Names involved

Yoshijiro Umezu

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