On which ship did the Japanese sign surrender terms in Tokyo Harbour in September 1945?
Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War Hohhot after 1954) in Inner Mongolia to drop leaflets which contained the text of Japanese Emperor Hirohito's surrender decree. He was shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft gun fire, and became the last casualty of the Chinese Air Force in the eight-year-long war. On 2 September 1945, hostilities with Japan ended officially with the signing of the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay. Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW) Some of the aircraft types used in the Second Sino-Japanese War: Chinese and American Air Units Japanese Air Units Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese
Japanese Instrument of Surrender surrender was signed, and the original bronze plaque marking the location of the signing (which was replaced by two replicas in 1990). The Japanese copy of the treaty varied from the Allied in the following ways: The Allied copy of the Instrument is at the United States National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.. A replica of the Japanese version can be viewed at the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Tokyo. As witnesses, American general Jonathan Wainwright, who had surrendered the Philippines, and British lieutenant-general Arthur Percival, who had surrendered Singapore, received two of the six pens used by General MacArthur to sign