The Bitter Tea of Defeat. The look of the vanquished Jap was caught by a Coast Guard combat photographer in this great picture taken as the Japanese surrender party walked down the ramp of a plane at Manila. The trilogy of expressions range from sorrow (the bowed head of the Jap officer at top of the ramp), through stoic pride (the man in the middle) to surliness, as evidenced in the out-thrust lower lip and the scowl on the face of the officer at the right.

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Keywords: 17-a2-212, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg