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| Keywords: Perry flag 1945.jpg en US Naval Historical Center caption Surrender of Japan Tokyo Bay 2 September 1945<br> The photo bore the subtext Photo USA C-2717 Gen MacArthur speaking 2 Sept 1945 <br> General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander reading his speech to open the surrender ceremonies on board USS Missouri BB-63 The representatives of the Allied Powers are behind him including from left to right Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser RN United Kingdom; Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko Soviet Union; General Sir Thomas Blamey Australia; Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave Canada; General Jacques LeClerc France; Admiral Conrad E L Helfrich The Netherlands and Air Vice Marshal Leonard M Isitt New Zealand Lieutenant General Richard K Sutherland U S Army is just to the right of Air Vice Marshal Isitt Off camera to left are the representative of China General Hsu Yung-chang and the U S representative Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz USN <u>Framed flag in upper left is that flown by Commodore Matthew C Perry's flagship when she entered Tokyo Bay in 1853 </u> http //www history navy mil/photos/images/ac00001/ac02717 jpg -- US Naval Historical Center Photo USA C-2717 unknown photographer -- Official US Navy Photograph now in the collections of the US National Archives 1945-09-02 NOTE Flag mounted on bulkhead of veranda deck is the very same one flown by Commodore Matthew C Perry when he led the US Navy's Far East Squadron into Tokyo Bay in 1853-1854 The flag in this photograph is displayed backward -- reverse side showing stars in the upper right corner The cloth of the historic flag was so fragile that the conservator at the Naval Academy Museum directed that a protective backing be sewn on it leaving its wrong side visible; and this was how Perry's 31-star flag was presented on this unique occasion PD-USGov-Military-Navy Surrender of Japan 2 September 1945 Douglas MacArthur in 1945 Thomas Blamey World War II color photographs of the Pacific War Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Leonard Monk Isitt Chester Nimitz | ||||
