USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Aboard the USS Missouri, this instrument of surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, by the Japanese envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu.

Detailed explanation-2: -The vessel on which the surrender ceremony would take place, the battleship USS Missouri, had been commissioned in 1944 and seen action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Most appropriately, it was named after President Harry Truman’s home state and had been christened by his daughter Margaret.

Detailed explanation-3: -The reason turned out to be two Atomic bombs that were set to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The official surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri would attract a world-wide radio audience with famous Pacific commanding General Douglas MacArthur handling the Instrument of Surrender proceedings.

Detailed explanation-4: -At 9:04 in the morning on September 2, 1945, aboard the new 45, 000-ton battleship U.S.S. Missouri and before representatives of nine Allied nations, the Japanese signed the official Instrument of Surrender, prepared by the War Department and approved by President Truman.

Detailed explanation-5: -The impressive 300-vessel display of Allied naval power in Tokyo Bay assembled for the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945 included three US hospital ships. One was Army-operated-the USAHS Marigold and the others were the Navy ships, USS Rescue and USS Benevolence.