Introduction
Larry Keighley (1906–1993) was a photographer based in Philadelphia. He did a lot of work for the Saturday Evening Post, and perhaps is best remembered for climbing to the top of a gun turret on the U.S.S. Missouri and taking an unscheduled color photo of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
Larry Keighley is notable in Camden for his award winning color photograph of the Hollingshead Fire of July, 1940.
Besides the images shown below, another series of Mr. Keighley’s photographs can be seen here, in the September 1948 edition of Popular Photography Magazine.
Photos
Award-winning color photograph of the Hollingshead Fire of July 1940, taken by Larry Keighley
Dawn of Peace
This is the first and only publication anywhere of Post Photographer Larry Keighley’s unparalleled color picture of the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
In the foreground, General Yoshijiro Umezu is signing the surrender terms for the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters. On the Jap general’s right, opposite side of table, is Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, General MacArthur’s Chief of Staff. Back of microphones stands General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. Reading left to right, the first row of men facing the camera in back of General MacArthur are: Admiral of the Fleet Chester W. Nimitz; Gen. Hsu-Yung-chang, China; Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, Britain; Lt. Gen. Derevyanko, U.S.S.R.; Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, Australia; Col. L. Moore Cosgrave, Canada; Gen. “Jacques Leclerc” (Count Philippe de Hauteclocque), France; Vice Adm. Conrad Helfrich, Netherlands; Air Vice Marshal L. M. Isitt, New Zealand. The officer at the extreme right is Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright.
Reprinted from the October 27, 1945 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Copyright 1945, The C. P. Co.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Dorrie Bright for her help in creating this page.