Surrender of Japan Ceremonies Aboard the USS Missouri
Lieutenant General Kuzma Nikolaevich Derevyanko of the Soviet Union (seated) signs the Instrument of Surrender for Japan during ceremonies on board the USS Missouri. Standing in the foreground on the left is United States General Douglas MacArthur. All others are unidentified. From a scrapbook presented to Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan on the occasion of his visit to General Headquarters, U. S. Army Forces, Pacific, in Tokyo, Japan, July 1946.