Sep. 23, 1945


      Roland Wilde - Major General LeRoy B. Hunt - Wm. M. Brown - Lt General Toguchi 長崎要塞司令官陸軍中将谷口元治郎
 Sep. 23, 1945. Lt General Toguchi, Commanding General 122nd Independent Mixed Brigade listens intently as col. Roland Wilde. USMC. , left explains through Lt. Gen. Toguchi's interpreter, the orders and demands of Major General LeRoy B. Hunt, Commanding General 2nd Marin Division, occupying forces of Nagasaki. Captain Wm. M. Brown, 2nd from left, is the Marines Japanese  interpreter. General Hunt and his staff were transported  to Ngasaki on the USS CAMBRIA. Photo by Hal Garrett.
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Sep. 23, 1945. Lt General Toguchi, Commanding General, 122nd Independent Mixed Brigade, Nagasaki, and his military colleauges  listen sorowfully to their orders for occupation of the city destroyed by the second Atomic Bomb. Facial expressions indicate the feeling of the remaining populace of Nagasaki to the American forces. When the advanced forces moved in the local police guarded the group with the belief that if anything happened to our men we would return and drop another Atomic Bomb.


#11-September 23, 1945 :  Major General LeRoy B. Hunt, Commanding General, 2nd Div. Marines, reading to Japanese representatives of Nagasaki, city where second atomic bomb landed, the provisions and stipulations of the occupational forces of which he headed, aboard Commodore Herbert B. Knowles, USN(second left) Flagship, Coast Gurd manned Navy transport USS CAMBRIA (APA-36)  in Nagasaki harbor. (Left R -General Hunt, Commodore Knowles, Brig. Genl. John T. Walker, Col. George F. Good Jr., Col. Jack P. Juhan. Lt. Col. Samuel G. Taxis, Lt. Col Jacob G. Goldberg, Col. Ronald Wilde and Captain WM. M. Brown, interpreter) .(All officers expect Commodore Knowles are USMC).
LeRoy B. Hunt(1892-1968)
Herbert B. Knowles(1894-)
John T. Walker(1893-1955)
George F. Good Jr
Jack P. Juhan (1904-2002)
Samuel G. Taxis (1909-1984)
Jacob G. Goldberg(1911-2008)
Ronald Wilde
WM. M. Brown


  
Jap delegation at the surrender of Nagasaki on board the Cambria
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Americans dictate surrender terms on the Cambria


Jap leaving the ship at Nagasaki

 
Nagasaki Japan where the "A" bomb fell

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First occupation troops ashore at Nagasaki Japan

 
The Cambria Show

 
Homeward Boud

 
In the tailend of a typhoon