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Collection: 10873 - North Dakota Veterans' History Project Records
Folder: 0015.012
Item: 00444_00005
Title: Signing of Japanese surrender
Date: 10/13/2004
Creator: Anderson, Nicole
Summary: Digitized. Original photo taken on September 2, 1945 of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific ocean areas, seated at a table aboard the Battleship USS Missouri as he signed the World War II surrender of the Japanese in the Tokyo Bay. Standing behind him are (left to right), Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Adm. William F. Halsey Jr., and Rear Adm. Forrest Sherman.
Red ID: MS_I_452333 Image ID: 468875 Image Notes: 10873-00444-00005

Collection: 10873 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Veterans' History Project Records
Date: circa 1899-2019

Summary: Consists of interviews of North Dakota Veterans who served in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War, War of Iraq, and other military conflicts. The files include one or more of the following formats: recordings (audio and/or video), manuscripts, photographs, and scrapbooks. The collection also contains records, administrative paperwork and forms used for the project.

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