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Unidentified high ranking Japanese officers on General Tomoyuki Yamashita's staff following their surrender to the 32nd Division at Kiangan in Northern Luzon, Philippines. General Yamashita refused to surrender until the Japanese government signed the formal surrender agreement aboard the USS Missouri. Signal Corps number SC 263531.

The sixteen-man Japanese delegation arrives at Nichols Field, Manila, Philippines where they will begin negotiations on the terms of the Japanese surrender to end World War II. Greeting the delegation is Major General Charles A. Willoughby (center facing camera). All others are unidentified.

Japanese General Yoshijiro Umezu signs the Instrument of Surrender Agreement on behalf of the Japanese government ending the war with Japan while (left to right) General Douglas MacArthur and his Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland look on. Others in the background are unidentified. The ceremony took place aboard the USS Missouri in Manila Bay. These photographs were given to Colonel Westray B. Boyce during her tour of the Pacific Theatre in the Fall of 1945.

Members of the sixteen-man Japanese surrender arrangement delegation team climb aboard an American C-54 transport at Ie Shima, Japan for the flight to Manila, Philippines where they negotiated the unconditional surrender of Japan that ended the war with Japan.

From left to right, Lieutenant General K. N. Dereyanko (Russian); General Walter Krueger (American); General Sir Thomas Blamey (Australian); Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland (American); Lieutenant General Arthur Percival (British); Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright (American) and General Douglas MacArthur (American) are standing together in Manila, Philippines during the period of the negotiations of the Japanese surrender.

Lieutenant General Kawabe Torashiro (center), Vice Chief of the Imperial Staff and head of the Japanese surrender arrangement delegation arrives at Nichols Field, Manila, Philippines with an unidentified member of his staff. The two American soldiers are also unidentified.

General Douglas MacArthur (center) is standing outside Atsugi Airdrome Airfield near Tokyo, Japan, with Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, Chief of Staff (left) and General Robert L. Eichelberger, Commanding General of the 8th Army (right). At the extreme left with glasses is Major General Spencer B. Akin, Chief Signal Officer. All others are unidentified.

Major General Charles A. Willoughby (left), Intelligence Officer on General Douglas MacArthur's staff, stands next to an unidentified American officer and Japanese Lieutenant General Kawabe Torashiro, Vice Chief of the Imperial Staff (third from left). General Torashiro was head of the Japanese surrender arrangement delegation and is shown here prior to presenting his credentials.

The sixteen members of the Japanese delegation disembarking from a C-54 transport plan after a flight from Ie Shima to Nichols Field, Manila, Philippines. They are greeted by Major General Charles A. Willoughby from General Douglas MacArthur's staff. They came to Manila to negotiate the Japanese Surrender Agreement. This photograph was given to Colonel Westray B. Boyce during her tour of the Pacific Theatre during the Fall of 1945.

From left to right, unidentified woman, Captain Louise Mowat, Major General Richard J. Marshall, Colonel Westray Battle Boyce, Navy Lieutenant Bob (unknown) and Dr. Marion E. Kenworthy relax during a dinner held in Colonel Boyce's honor in Manila. Colonel Boyce was on a tour of WAC locations in the Pacific Theatre.