WWII JAPAN SURRENDER CEREMONY - from our story 'Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life'

Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese surrender documents Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, left foreground, who surrendered Bataan to the Japanese, and British Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival, next to Wainwright, who surrendered Singapore, observe the ceremony marking the end of World War II. (AP Photo) Ref #: PA.4762828

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