The bloody war against the Japanese ended in Tokyo Bay on the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. A few days later, Colonel Gale T Cummings, the G-1 of the III Amphibious Corps (USMC) summoned his driver and told him that he had been chosen to accompany Brigadier General William A Worton, Chief of Staff, along with 10 other officers and 5 other enlisted men to fly to North China on September 17 to make contact with the Japanese Imperial Forces and...
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