HOW PEACE CAME TO THE EAST. 16 AUGUST 1945, ON BOARD THE ESCORT CARRIER HMS SHAH OF THE EAST INDIES FLEET. PERSONALITIES AND SCENES WHEN THE NEWS OF THE JAPANESE SURRENDER WAS RECEIVED, AND THE CELEBRATIONS WHICH FOLLOWED AFLOAT AND ASHORE. - Photographer Goldsmith of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, offers a light to Leading Seaman Alfred Charles Dennis of Plymouth. Dennis earned this cigar which was given to him on the day Japan capitulated on board HMS SHAH which was at sea with a Task Force of the British East Indies Fleet

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