Royal Marines RN RAN Personnel USS Sims landing craft to Japanese Forts Tokyo Bay 8.30.1945 b
Capt. Herbert James Buchanan, DSO, RAN, who oversaw the British landing force, watching the party preparing to disembark from Sims. Buchannan, an Australian who joined the Navy as a cadet in 1915, earned his DSO at Dunkirk after his command, the destroyer HMS Valentine, was bombed and sunk by Junkers 87 Stuka dive bombers, leaving him and his crew ashore to organize beach control parties during the evacuation. He had later commanded the destroyers HMS Vanity and HMAS Norman and Napier, the latter of which brought him to Tokyo Bay, IWM (A 30445)