Surrender of the Bonin Islands on board the
                                  USS Dunlap
The terms for the surrender of the
Bonin Islands was delivered to the  Island of Chi Chi Jima by air drop. The surrender terms were placed into an empty film canister attached to a Sonar Buoy Parachute and  dropped onto the airfield located on Chi Chi Jima.

  Acknowledgment of the terms of surrender would be the display of
three white stripes laid across run- ways of the airfield on Chi Chi Jima.




 
 
              USS Dunlap
     Island of Chi Chi Jima
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