Truk Atoll hosted a separate Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945.
While the main ceremony took place aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Vice Admiral George D. Murray accepted the surrender of the Caroline Islands at Truk. Japanese military and civilian officials formally surrendered there on the same day as the broader Japanese capitulation.
Truk, now commonly called Chuuk, had been a major Japanese naval base in the central Pacific. Allied carrier aircraft attacked the lagoon and surrounding installations in Operation Hailstone in February 1944, destroying or damaging many ships and aircraft. The atoll remained strategically important even after Japan’s main naval strength had been broken.
The Truk ceremony is sometimes overlooked because the Missouri signing became the iconic end-of-war image. It was one of several regional surrender ceremonies held across Asia and the Pacific as Japanese forces handed over commands and territories to Allied representatives.