On September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered on board the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Only two copies of the original Instrument of Surrender were signed, one retained by Japan, and the other by the United States. General Douglas MacArthur was instructed to have official, full-sized facsimiles prepared from the original, one for each of the nine nations. MacArthur, realizing that he would not receive one of these, increased the number of photographic facsimiles to twenty, eleven bound in blue leather and nine for his own distribution were bound in red leather. The example here was presented to General LeGrande Diller on his staff. The museum also displays another example, no longer in its red binding, which was presented to Philippino General Basilio Valdes, one of eight personal guests of MacArthur at the surrender ceremonies.