Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
901 M STREET SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58082

Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945


Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, and Pacific Ocean Areas, signs the Instrument of Surrender as United States representative, during the surrender ceremonies on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945.
Standing immediately behind him are (left to right):
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander;
Admiral William F. Halsey, Commander, Third Fleet, and
Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman, Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Nimitz.
Fleet Admiral Nimitz has signed this print.

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

27 January 1999