Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945. Photograph from the Army Signal ...

Douglas MacArthur signing surrender of Japan on warship USS MIssouri on Sept. 2, 1945 This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur was a hero from two World Wars who had served as the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific. He personally accepted the surrender of Japan, oversaw the Allied ...

At the Museum of Veterans in Vilonia, there is a framed copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. It was a donation to the museum by an old sailor who was there for the proceedings some 80 years ...

Washington and Manila were in a fantastic tizzy. Some celestial observer, watching the frantic fumblings of the victors and the rise of a new Government in Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS), might have thought ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with Japan's formal surrender. He was only 24 on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese officials boarded the USS ...