missouri. he escorts general macarthur to the miranda deck were a ceremony is to take place. 2, 1945.day, september> we are on the battleship missouri. we now call this debt the surrender deck. this is where the japanese signed the unconditional surrender. the ship looks different. the canopy was not installed. if you had looked around above us, you would have seen thousands of members of the missouri group hanging onto anything they could trying to get a glimpse of what was about to occur. at 9:00 in the morning, members from the japanese delegation were making their way on board. there were 11 of them. general douglas macarthur, admiral halsey descended from above to start the ceremony. the first person to sign the surrender document -- the next person would be signing on behalf of the japanese military. the third person to sign was general douglas macarthur himself. allies signede it. copies of the surrender documents and two copies because one was to be kept by the u.s. and one was to be kept by japan. we do not display the originals for obvious reasons. the originals are in the national archiv