Image:Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No higher resolution available.

Shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg (740 × 593 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is attempting to create a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
See the DoD copyright policy.


Photo #: SC 213700

Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945

English: Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), September 2, 1945. Lieutentant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, watches from the opposite side of the table. Foreign Ministry representative Toshikazu Kase is assisting Mr. Shigemitsu.
日本語: 降伏文書調印 東京湾に浮かぶ戦艦ミズーリ上 1945年9月2日 中央で署名を行っているのは重光葵外務大臣 その左後方に侍しているのは加瀬俊一
中文 : 1945年9月2日,東京灣,日本投降

1945年9月2日日本外務大臣重光葵在美軍戰艦密蘇里號上代表日本政府簽署了日本投降書。

中將Richard K. Sutherland,美國軍方,從桌子的另一邊觀看。外務省代表 Toshikazu Kase 正在輔助重光葵先生。

Background notes: USS Missouri (BB-63)
English: The third USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy battleship, notable as the final battleship to be built by the United States, the second-to-last in the world after HMS Vanguard, and the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
日本語: ミズーリ (USS Missouri, BB-63) はアメリカ海軍の戦艦。アイオワ級の3番艦。ニューヨーク海軍工廠にて建造。太平洋戦争での日本の降伏調印式場となる。当時の大統領トルーマンの出身州に因んで同艦が選定された。現在はハワイ州パールハーバーで記念艦として保存。


USS Missouri (BB-63)

World War II ships / United States Navy battleships / 1940s ships / New York Naval Shipyard

 Deutsch    English   Español    Français    Ido    Bahasa Melayu    日本語    Português  

Edit Info:USS Missouri (BB-63)


Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):