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Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945
After six years of brutal global conflict, this document marked the end of the Second World War.
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Catalogue reference: WO 25/752
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See WO 25/752A and WO 25/752B. (Described at item level).
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Descriptions relating to individuals have been created using information from a nominal card index relating to Army Officers' service compiled in the 1980s, which is not comprehensive and may contain some errors
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The item numbers in this piece equate to individual officers' case numbers on the original nominal card index cards used for creating the item descriptions in this series; as a result they are not necessarily consecutive and there may be gaps in the numerical sequence.
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