Which Japanese general signed second for Japan at the USS Missouri surrender ceremony?
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Yoshijiro Umezu
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Which Japanese general signed second for Japan at the USS Missouri surrender ceremony?
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Yoshijiro Umezu
What was the name of Emperor Hirohito’s recorded 1945 broadcast announcing Japan’s surrender?
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Gyokuon-hōsō
Who was the woman photographed in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous V-J Day kiss image?
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Greta Zimmer Friedman
Which American general opened Japan’s surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in 1945?
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Douglas MacArthur
At which Virginia site did Charles Cornwallis surrender to George Washington in 1781?
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Yorktown
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