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Never heard this story. What’s worse, I never wondered how the f^<£ McArthur had a bound copy of a surrender treaty on the deck of the Missouri for the Japanese delegation to sign in the first place. Of course there had to have been some conversation before signing. So it happened in Manila? You got a book on that conference. Tom?

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Not on the conference. But Tidal Wave goes into the end of the war, and comes to some demonstrable conclusions that aren't the way the Official History has told the story for the past 77 years.

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