TOKYO (Sept. 2, 1945) Sailors aboard the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) watch the signing of the Instrument of Surrender, Sept. 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay. Japanese Foreign Ministry representatives Katsuo Okazaki and Toshikazu Kase, and Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, correcting an error on the Japanese copy of the Instrument of Surrender, at the conclusion of the surrender ceremonies. Photographed looking forward from USS Missouri's superstructure. Note the relaxed stance of most of those around the surrender table. The larger ship in the right distance is USS Ancon (AGC-4). (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives)