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	FLAGSHIP TASK GROUP ENTERS TOKYO BAY On August 27, 1945, the Allied Third Fleet closed the Japanese coast and anchored in Sagami Wan. Two days later, after the channel through the Uraga Suido (Uraga Strait) was cleared and the Yokosuka Naval Base secured, many of the ships present formed into a miles-long column and followed minesweepers north into Tokyo Bay.
	Attached to Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.’s Flagship Task Group were the three surviving destroyers of the original Division 41, Nicholas, Taylor, and O’Bannon, chosen to honor their long service, which had begun in the Solomon Islands shortly before he had taken command there nearly three years previously.
	Here at 0840 hours on August 29, the three destroyers, weathered and low on stores after nearly two months at sea, lead his flagship Missouri and sister battleship Iowa into the turn at the Kannon Saki Lighthouse. A Japanese harbor pilot and interpreter are embarked in Nicholas but the ship’s own navigator calls the course changes through the minefield. In 40 minutes the formation will have dispersed as the ships proceed independently to anchor in pre-assigned berths in the lower reaches of Tokyo Bay.
	The formal surrender ceremony on board Missouri followed on September 2.