On this day in 1945, General Tomoyuki Yamashita formally surrendered, along with his less than 50,000-strong command to American Generals Arthur Percival and Jonathan Wainwright in Camp John Hay, Baguio City. The war had formally ended just weeks before on August 15, when no less than the Emperor himself acknowledged defeat.
Baguio was a fitting place to end the war in the Philippines. Baguio was the first place to be invaded along with Manila on December 1941. It was only fitting the Japanese surrender where they first landed. That Yamashita surrendered to Generals Percival and Wainwright was also fitting, as well; the two of them were prisoners throughout the war.
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