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JAPANESE SURRENDER ABOARD U.S.S. MISSOURI NIMITZ, CHESTER W. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "To Rear Admiral J.J. 'Jocko' Clark, U.S.N. / with best wishes and great appreciation of your great contribution / to the efforts that made possible the above scene. / C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral USNavy," showing him in the act of signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in 1945. Inscribed in the blank margin below the image, and additionally signed in the image near portrait of Nimitz ("C.W. Nimitz / U.S. Representative"). 11x14 inches; slight fading to signature at extreme lower edge, faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of mounting at all sides verso, caption written in margin at upper left in unknown hand. Np, nd
