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Show IIALSEY ENTERS TOKYO BAY; US FLAG FLIES IN JAPAN FOR FIRST TIME MacArthur Leaves To Join Missouri-Bids Wainwright To Be At Surrender Signing Rear. Adm. Oscar C. Badger, And Halsey's chief of Staff Rear Adm. Robert C. Carney Play Leading Roles The mighty battleship Missouri, Mis-souri, aboard which Japan's surrender sur-render will be signed, entered Tokyo bay Wednesday as the first American flag raised in victory vic-tory over the soil of beaten Nippon Nip-pon caught the breeze within 18 miles of the emperor's palace. Adm. Halsey rode the 45.000-ton 45.000-ton batllewagon into the bay at 7:08 a. m. (4:08 p. m., Tuesday, MWT) as great sea and air-borne forces were poised for large-scale large-scale occupation landings, backed back-ed by warships massing from as far away as the Aleutians. MacArlhur Leaves Manila for Okinawa Gen. MacArthur left Manila Wednesday by plane for Okinawa Okin-awa on his way to his triumphal entry of Japan. His master plan for the powerful pow-erful occupation, unfolded orderly, order-ly, pointed toward the historic surrender signing September 2 aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay. Air-borne troops raised the Stars and Stripes at Atsugi airfield, air-field, southwest of Tokyo, which they are preparing for the arrival arriv-al Thursday of MacArthur and thousands of troops in air transports trans-ports from Okinawa. While advance Third fleet units un-its rode at anchor in Tokyo bay and mighty battlewagons made ready from near-by Sagami bay to join them, a pending fleet I movement from the Aleutians was disclosed. |