Japanese officers’ briefcases are searched for possible weapons, in the wardroom of USS Nicholas (DD-449), as the destroyer carried them to confer with Allied representatives concerning the entry of US and British warships into Sagami Wan and Tokyo Bay, August 27, 1945. Nicholas’s Executive Officer, Lt-Cmdr Raynha Townshend, USNR, is in the left center. (Credit: Naval Historical Center)
