Gen. Douglas MacArthur signing official surrender of Japan, as Gen. Jonathan Wainwright & British Gen. Arthur E. Percival look on aboard the US battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. (Allies, front row, L-R: Chester A. Nimitz, Chinese Gen. Hsu Yung-Chang,British Adm. Bruce Fraser, Russian Lt. Gen. Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Australian Gen. Thomas Blamey, Canadian Col. L. Moore Cosgrave, French Gen. Jacques LeC lerc, Dutch Adm. Conrad Helfrich, New Zealand Vice Marshal L.M. Isitt.