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There was no overall Allied commander in the Pacific in WWII. General MacArthur, Adimiral Nimitiz, and Admiral Mountbatten each were supreme commanders in defined areas. MacArthur was designated to command the occupation forces and so presided at the Japanese surrender ceremony.
The Nazi German Leader Admiral Doenitz surrendered in Berlin to Field Marshall Montgomery and they signed the Instrument of Surrender. The next day Admiral Doenitz had to sign another Instrument of Surrender with the Soviets in Berlin. The Japanese signed the Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri Ship with General MacArthur and some admirals.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) accepted the formal surrender of the Japanese Imperial Forces on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay.
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MacArthur did secure victory, taking the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri on 2nd September 1945.
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There was no overall Allied commander in the Pacific in WWII. General MacArthur, Adimiral Nimitiz, and Admiral Mountbatten each were supreme commanders in defined areas. MacArthur was designated to command the occupation forces and so presided at the Japanese surrender ceremony.
At the time the Japanese were overrunning the Pacific area, President Roosevelt did not want Gen MacArthur to be captured by the Japanese so he order him out. He escaped via a motor torpedo boat to Australia..
The Japanese surrendered on the USS Mississippi to General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz
Pull out his troops, but he promised "I SHALL RETURN"