This typewritten account describes the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands, staged at Ryukyus Command headquarters on Okinawa on September 7, 1945. Captured Japanese howitzers symbolically aimed toward Tokyo flanked the ceremony, while tanks, self-propelled artillery, and honor guard troops from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps stood in formation. The account names Lt. Gen. Toshiro Nomi and Maj. Gen. Toshisada Todaka as the senior Japanese officers who signed the surrender, witnessed by American commanders including Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle and Vice Adm. J. B. Oldendorf. Project: 218543