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Raising the U.S. flag over Wake Island after Japan's surrender, 4 September 1945; Japanese commanding officer Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara in foreground.
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Japanese PoWs await inspection of their gear before evacuation from Wake Island after the surrender of September 4, 1945.
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Ceremony with Royal Marines on the quayside as the Union Jack flew once again over Penang, Malaya, 3 September 1945.
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British ex-POW's after having received 5 pound payment for spending money, all were captured in Hong Kong in 1941. Heading home on HMS Khedive, 4 September 1945.
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Manila, Philippine Islands. 4 September 1945. A group of Australian prisoners of war recovered from Japan ready for interrogation at No. 3 Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group.
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U.S. Army Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott decorates Japanese American soldiers of Company "L" of the 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team with the Presidential Unit Citation, 4 September 1945.
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A 14th Fighter Group P-38 stationed at Gibraltar, November 1942
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The American flag, first to fly over Tokyo since the Japanese surrender, is raised over the Nippon News building in downtown Tokyo on September 5, 1945 by Lieutenant Bud Stapleton of Syracuse, New York.
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A British flag flies above a cheering crowd during the arrival of the 5th Indian Division at Singapore , which marked the end of three and a half years of Japanese occupation, 5 September 1945.
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Liberated prisoners of war, mostly British, discovered in a Japanese prison camp on Formosa, September 5, 1945, by a Pacific fleet mercy unit. Destroyer escorts USS Gary and USS Kretchmer, moored at Kiirun, rushed emergency rations to the camp as soon as possible.
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A Curtis SB2C Helldiver flying from USS Intrepid (CV-11) over Tientsin, China (now Tianjin), 5 September 1945. Intrepid launched 86 aircraft this day as a show of strength during the demobilization of Japanese forces in the area.
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Two TBM-3 Avenger aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-26 at Matsuyama Airfield, Taihoku (now Taipei), Formosa (now Taiwan), early September 1945.
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TBM-3 Avenger #60 of VMTB-233 at Matsuyama Airfield on Formosa on September 5, 1945 Note - Japanese soldiers are looking at it.
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