Lieutenant-General Takazo Numata (Chief of Staff, Southern Army) and Rear Admiral Kaigye Chudo (Deputy Chief of Staff), heads of the Japanese delegation, leave the tent, where they signed the Instrument of Surrender. Following them are Lieutenant-General Sir Montague Stopford (commander 12th Army), and Major-General Symes (commander South Burma District). Air Vice Marshal Bouchier (commander RAF 221 Group) and Major-General Tuker (acting commander IV Indian Corps) and other allied commanders are in the rear. On the side, allied soldiers are wittnessing the event; Mingaladon airfield, Rangoon, Burma. 

Surrender in Burma

An Achilles tank destroyer on the east bank of the Rhine moves up to link with airborne forces whose abandoned gliders can be seen in the background.

Joining forces

The young and the old: German prisoners of war, mostly boys who were captured by the British at Bremen, April 1945