How many original copies are there of the instrument of surrender for World War 2?

Answer 1

I refer to The Japanese Instrument of Surrender Documents from WW11 that were presented and signed aboard the USS Missouri on September 4th 1945, along with The Emperors Credentials, authourising his ministers to surrender, which were produced at the palace and brought to the ceremony by Hirohito's Prime Minister. According to papers held in The McArthur Memorial Museum in Norfolk Virginia, 60 copies of these documents were requested to be made for the military personel attending the surrender ceremony. Bruce Fraser's copy housed at the Imerial War Museum, London, is an example of this type of first copy. It is bound in leather, printed on a fax type photocopy paper. There are claims on the net that the earliest ever zerox photocopy machine was used to produce these copies aboard the ship. These were half size reproductions. Later back in Washington, Dean Acheson, Acting Secretatry of State for the US government, requested 12 copies to be made for the American top brass. Genral MacArthur had two other copies sent to him. One he sent on to General A E Percival, along with one of the pens used at the surrender ceremony, mounted on Onyx. There were other souvenir copies produced in booklet form which were given to those invited to attend the investiture of original surrender documents at The National Archive.