Signing of the Japanese Capitulation Document

Location: Baguio City, Benguet

Category: Personages

Type: Biographical marker

Status: Level II – Historical marker

Marker Date: 1946

Installed By: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

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.

Tags: 1946, Baguio City, Benguet, Level II, No photo available, Personages, Region CAR, Signing of the Japanese Capitulation Document, Sites/Events

The Signing of the Terms of Capitulation

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