American servicemen crowd around a Japanese envoy aircraft on the airfield at Ie Shima, August 19, 1945. This twin-engine bomber, likely a Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" painted white with green crosses per Allied instruction, carried Japanese officials on the first leg of their historic flight to negotiate the terms of Japan's surrender with General MacArthur's headquarters, marking one of the final chapters of World War II in the Pacific. Project: 218047