PHOTOGRAPH: Japanese Surrender.
Inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt by Admiral Nimitz
(Roosevelt, Eleanor) Nimitz, Chester W., Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy. Photograph: The Japanese Surrender, USS Missouri. Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.
11 x 13¾ in; black and white; black wood frame; inscribed and signed.
One of the series of photographs depicting the famous ceremony on the deck of the Battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945, at which the U.S. and its Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. In the photo, Nimitz is seated at the large desk, flanked by a large group of high-ranking American officers. Pen in hand, he is in the act of signing the surrender treaty as U.S. Representative. On the white area of the treaty, he has signed in ink: C.W. Nimitz U.S. Representative.
A presentation copy, movingly inscribed in the white margin of the photograph to Eleanor, in September 1945 still a new widow, FDR having died on April 12 of that year: To Eleanor Roosevelt – I do not know of any family in our nation that made heavier contributions to winning World War II than the Roosevelts. C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral.
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