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Photo #: NH 71599

Surrender of Japan, 1945

Lieutenant Commander Edward Porter Clayton, USN, (center, back to camera) Commanding Officer of Underwater Demolition Team 21, receiving the first sword surrendered to an American force in the Japanese Home islands. The surrender was made by a Japanese Army Coast Artillery Major (standing opposite LCdr. Clayton) at Futtsu-misaki, across Tokyo Bay from Yokosuka Navy Base on 28 August 1945. Members of UDT-21 had landed from USS Burke (APD-65), whose boats are beached in this view.
Identifications of many of the UDT-21 members present are provided in NH 71599 (complete caption).

Courtesy of Mr. Robert A. Winters, Mine Advisory Committee, National Academy of Sciences, 1970.

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24 February 1999