THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 5, 1945

* Wake Island back in U.S. possession
* Post World War II Japan

The front page has a four column headline: "AMERICAN FLAG IS RAISED ON WAKE ISLE" with subheads that include: "EPIC OF ATOLL ENDS" "Americans Go Ashore to Crown Heroic Fight of marines in 1941" and more. (see)
Complete with all 40 pages, light toning at the margins, generally very nice.

Background: The formal surrender of Wake Island on September 4, 1945, carried immense symbolic and emotional weight, representing the somber closing of a full-circle narrative that had gripped the American psyche since the start of World War II. Just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a small force of U.S. Marines and civilian contractors heroically defended the tiny Pacific atoll against a massive Japanese invasion for 15 grueling days, providing a desperate nation with the rallying cry "Remember Wake Island!" before ultimately being overwhelmed and captured. Rather than launching a costly amphibious assault to retake it later in the war, the Allies strategically blockaded the island, leading to the eventual surrender of Japanese Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara aboard the USS Levy two days after the formal peace treaty on the USS Missouri. The significance of the American flag being raised that day went far beyond a routine territorial reclamation; it was a bittersweet victory marked by the tragic discovery that Sakaibara had ordered the mass execution of 98 American civilian forced laborers in 1943. Thus, the liberation of Wake Island stood as both a profound relief and a stark monument to the human cost of the Pacific war, closing one of its earliest chapters with a stark reminder of the brutality of the conflict.