The instrument of surrender was signed by representatives of the Allied and Japanese governments onboard USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945.
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On 1 September 1942 the first Seabee unit to serve in a combat area, the Sixth Naval Construction Battalion, arrived on Guadalcanal.
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