Brooklyn Navy Yard - Photo #127 - Other Ships

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Photo:  US Navy, via NARA.
On the deck of the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay: Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945: Lt. General Kuzma Derevyanko representing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is shown signing the Allied copy of the Instrument of Surrender. (caption from navsource.org)