THE SURRENDER
SEPTEMBER 2, 1945 V-J DAY


Surrender commemorative cover with special 
YOKOHAMA postmark addressed to MANILA.

ONLY KNOWN COVER
ORIGINATING FROM YOKOHAMA TO THE PHILIPPINES

THE SURRENDER CEREMONIES
THE VANQUISHED

Official Navy Photographed with the following caption on reverse:

FILE NUMBER: 700778 
RELEASED:  SEPTEMBER 3, 1945
“TIDE OF EMPIRE HAS LAST EBB 
IN TOKYO BAY
The historic ceremony in which Japan for the first time admitted she was defeated has ended...and the men who signed the surrender document parade off-stage  to and the proceedings. U.S. Navy officers and men stand at salute as the Jap military and civil representatives file across the deck of the battleship USS MISSOURI 
to disembark. 

This official U.S. Navy Photograph was flown directly from Japan to Washington, D.C., 
arriving on September 3, 1945”.
THE VICTORS
Official Navy Photographed with the following caption on reverse:

FILE NUMBER: 700776 
RELEASED:  SEPTEMBER 3, 1945
“ARMY AND NAVY BOARD MISSOURI -- General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, USA, now Supreme Commander for the Allies,  is accompanied by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN, Commander-in Chief,
U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, as he strides up  the deck of the USS MISSOURI before the opening of the ceremony in which Japan formally and unconditionally surrendered.

This official U.S. Navy Photograph was flown directly from Japan to Washington, D.C., 
arriving on September 3, 1945”.