Japan’s Surrender to MacArthur

Located on the 4th floor of the WMC, this painting depicts an early Sunday morning on September 2, 1945,  aboard the new 45,000-ton battleship U.S.S. Missouri and before representatives of nine Allied nations, where  the Japanese signed their surrender. At the ceremonies, General MacArthur stated that the Japanese and their  conquerors did not meet “in a spirit of mistrust, malice or hatred but rather, it is for us, both victors and  vanquished, to rise to that higher dignity which alone benefits the sacred purposes we are about to serve.”