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Taken on 28 August 1945

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U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team 21 lands in Tokyo Bay on 28 August 1945

U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team 21 lands in Tokyo Bay on 28 August 1945 — Unknown

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

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