USA/Japan: Plaque on the USS Missouri commemorating the signing of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, September 2, 1945. A close-up of the plaque aboard the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) commemorating the end of World War II. The official surrender by Japan took place aboard the Missouri on 2 September 1945, with Shigemitsu Mamoru, representative of the Japanese emperor, signing surrender documents in the presence of Admiral Chester Nimitz, representing the United States Navy, and General Douglas MacArthur, serving as the supreme commander of Allied forces for the ceremony.

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