A U.S. Navy motor launch, crowded with a 'prize crew' of officers and sailors, comes alongside in this 1945 photograph. According to an accompanying handwritten caption, the men were led by Commander Cassidy and were bound for a Japanese submarine that had come alongside USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine tender. Proteus received the formal surrender of several Imperial Japanese Navy submarines, including the giant I-400-class boats, in Tokyo Bay at the close of the Second World War, an event this image likely documents. Project: 218722