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80-G-338187 Surrender of Japan, 1945

Photo #: 80-G-338187 Surrender of Japan, 1945
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Title: Surrender of Japan, 1945
Description: The man standing second from left, wearing Navy enlisted dungarees, has been credibly identified as Gregory Boyington. Former U.S. Navy prisoners of war on board USS Reeves (APD-52) in Tokyo Bay, Japan, after being transferred from USS Benevolence (AH-13), 30 August 1945. They had just been liberated from the Nisson Mills Camp # 2, in the Tokyo Area. The man second from left has been credibly identified as U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Boyington, and certainly looks like him. In his book Baa Baa Black Sheep (pages 343-344 of the 1959 Dell paperback edition) Boyington briefly describes his time on the Benevolence. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-338187
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