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80-G-490351: Surrender of Japan, August-September 1945

80-G-490351: Surrender of Japan, August-September 1945. A Japanese Mitsubishi G4M “Betty” which carried the envoys from Japan to General Douglas MacArthur in Manila, stops at Ie Shima airfield before proceeding to the Philippines, which will lead to the formal Japanese Surrender on September 2, 1945. Note the Red Crosses on the plane. Photograph released August 19, 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/11/10).
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Caption: Surrender of Japan, August-September 1945. A Japanese Mitsubishi G4M “Betty” which carried the envoys from Japan to General Douglas MacArthur in Manila, stops at Ie Shima airfield before proceeding to the Philippines, which will lead to the formal Japanese Surrender on September 2, 1945. Note the Red Crosses on the plane. Photograph released August 19, 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/11/10).
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