Japanese Surrender on USS Missouri, Attendance Certificate

Image of certifcate/I.D. card for Lt. Robert L. Balfour, USNR, certifying attendance at formal surrender of Japanese Forces to Allied Powers aboard USS Missouri.

[actual size: 3" x 2 .25"]

USS MISSOURI			SEPTEMBER 2, 1945
Tokyo Bay			SEPTEMBER 2, 1945

CERTIFYING THE PRESENCE OF:
LIEUT. ROBERT L. BALFOUR USNR


	at the formal surrender of the Japanese Forces to the Allied Powers.

				[signed] S.S. Murray Captain, U.S. Navy Commanding Officer
[signed] Douglas MacArthur General of the Army Supreme Commander Allied Powers
		[signed] C.W. Nimitz Fleet Admiral, US Navy United States Representative		W.F. Halsey Admiral, US Navy Commander Third Fleet