Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
At the end of the Second World War in Europe in May 1945, Leclerc received command of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps ("Corps expéditionnaire français en Extrême-Orient", CEFEO). He represented France at the surrender of the Japanese Empire in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. On 28 November 1945, he legally changed his name to Jacques-Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, incorporating his Free French pseudonym.