Roland H Baker flies overhead during the ceremony aboard the deck of the Missouri which lasted twenty three minutes and was broadcast throughout the world.
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Family Photo Roland H Baker flies overhead during the ceremony aboard the deck of the Missouri which lasted twenty three minutes and was broadcast throughout the world. The instrument was first signed by the Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu "By Command and on behalf of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Government" (9:04 am). Then General Yoshijir? Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, "By Command and on behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters" signed (9:06 am). At 9:08 a.m. U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Commander in the Southwest Pacific and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, accepted the surrender on behalf of the Allied Powers and signed in his capacity as Supreme Commander.
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