Joseph Carson Hutchison was a politician, businessman and decorated officer in the United States Army and Florida National Guard during World War II. He is most noted for his service as Assistant Commander, 31st Infantry Division during the Battle of Mindanao in 1945, when he accepted the surrender of Japanese 35th Army under lieutenant general Gyosaku Morozumi on behalf of Allied command.
Hutchinson as Brigadier general during the War.
31st Infantry Division (United States)
The 31st Infantry Division ("Dixie") was an infantry division of the United States Army National Guard, active almost continuously from 1917 to 1968. Composed of men from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Mississippi at various points in its existence, the division saw service in both World War I and World War II, and was mobilized during the Korean War, although it was not sent overseas in the latter.
The USS Orizaba departing from New York in 1918
Soldiers of the division landing on Morotai
World War II combat survivors of Company B, 124th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 31st Infantry Division. The regiment arrived at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation on 14 December 1945 and was inactivated a week later at Camp Stoneman, California, where this photo was taken.
Panoramic photograph of the 124th Infantry at Camp Wheeler, January 1918
