Surrender of Wake Island Aboard USS LEVY DE 162
4 September 1945
Left to right, sitting at table:
Japanese Army Colonel Shigeharu Chikamori, Sakaibara, Japanese Paymaster Lieutenant P. Hisao Napasato, Marine Brigadier General Lawson H. M. Sanderson, of Santa Barbara, Cal., Commander
of the Fourth Marine Air Wing who accepted the
surrender in the name of Rear Admiral W. K. Harrill, Army
Sergeant Larry Watanabe of Honolulu, official interpreter at the
surrender, and Colonel T. J. Walker Jr., Sanderson's Chief of
Staff.
Standing, center back, holding pipe, is Colonel Walter L. J. Baylor,
last man to leave and first to return to Wake Island.
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