With Allied delegations in the background and facing the Japanese officials across the table and ...

Accession Number 019122
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Place made Japan: Tokyo Bay
Date made 2 September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

With Allied delegations in the background and facing the Japanese officials across the table and General (Gen) Douglas MacArthur at the microphone, Gen Sir Thomas Blamey, Australia, seats himself at the table before signing the surrender document. Behind him are representative officer from Australia, left to right: Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) F. H. Berryman; Air Vice Marshal W. D. N. Bostock; Rear Admiral G. D. Moore, and Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Dwyer. The Allied delegations are lined up behind their delegation leader waiting their turn to sign the surrender document. Left to right: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, US; General Hsu Yung-Chang, Nationalist Chinese; Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, UK; Lt Gen K. N. Derevyanko, Soviet Union; Colonel L. Moore-Cosgrove, Canada; Gen B. J. Le Clerc, France; Admiral Conrad Helfrich, Netherlands; Air Vice Marshal Isitt, New Zealand. In the foreground are the Japanese signatories, General Yoshijiro Umezo and Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Foreign Minister.