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.