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Signing of the Japanese Capitulation Document

Signing of the Japanese Capitulation Document

Location: Camp John Hay, Baguio City

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II – Historical marker

Marker date: 1946

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

SIGNING OF THE JAPANESE CAPITULATION DOCUMENT

HERE WAS SIGNED THE CAPITULATION DOCUMENT FOR THE SURRENDER OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1945 AT 12:07 P.M. GEN. TOMUYUKI YAMASHITA, LT. COL. MOTO, VICE-ADMIRAL OKOCHI AND REAR-ADMIRAL ARIMA SIGNED FOR JAPAN. MAJOR GEN. E.H. LEAHEY, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WHO WAS IN TOKYO SIGNED FOR THE UNITED STATES. OTHERS PRESENT WERE: LTS. GEN. SIR ARTHUR PERCIVAL AND JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT, MAJS. GEN. DENNIS P. SWIFT, WOOD DECHER, ROBERTS BEIGHTLER, WILLIAM H. GILL, F.A. IRVING, COL. RUSSEL R. VOLCKMANN, ETC.

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