Japanese Surrender

Japanese Surrender
One of the first large scale surrenders in the Pacific occurred on Cebu. On August 19, 1945 Japanese officers commanded by Lt. General Kataoka of the 35th Army arrived in Cebu city to begin surrender negotiations.

On August 28, 1945 Maj. Gen. William H. Arnold of the American Division accepted the surrender of 10,000 Japanese on the island. In the course of this grueling struggle, the American Division incurred 410 men killed and 1,700 wounded. Another 8,000 men were classified as non-battle casualties, most of whom succumbed to an outbreak of infectious hepatitis. In turn, some 5,500 Japanese soldiers lay dead.