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This August 15, 1945 Teletype message to Gen. MacArthur was the anticlimactic end of World War II.

UNCLAS
FROM: MARSHALL
TO: MACARTHUR
INFO: NIMITZ (GUAM), DEANE (MOSCOW), WEDEMEYER (CHINA) NR. 1408

WITH REFERENCE PARAGRAPH 2 OF WARX 49182, YOU ARE HEREBY OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED OF JAPANESE CAPITULATION. YOUR DIRECTIVE AS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS IS EFFECTIVE WITH RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE.

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