Note: Karafuto Island and Toro Airfield became Sakhalin Oblast and Shakhtyorsk Airfield, respectively, after the Soviets captured them in August–September 1945.
U.S. Navy
USS Maxwell (DD 525) (Crackerjack), attached to DESRON 77
Cdr. Alton C. (Todd) Ingram, commanding officer
Lt. Cdr. Eldon P. (Tubby) White, executive officer
Lt. Thomas F. (Woody) Woodruff, operations officer
Lt. Julian Falco, gunnery officer, main battery director
DESRON 77
Maxwell (flag); DesDiv 77.1, Maxwell (flag), Shaler, Bertea, and Geiler; DesDiv 77.2, Wallace (flag), Cheffer, Beaulieu, and Truax
Capt. Jeremiah T. (Boom Boom) Landa, commodore, Destroyer Squadron 77
Eleventh Naval District, Long Beach, California
Cdr. Oliver P. (Ollie) Toliver III, case officer, Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
Cdr. Walter (Walt) Hodges, supply officer, Long Beach Naval Station
Other U.S. Navy Personnel
Adm. William F. Halsey Jr., commander, Third Fleet
Vice Adm. John S. McCain Sr., commander, Task Force 38 under Admiral Halsey
Lt. Larry M. O’Toole, attached as Japanese-language interpreter to Manila peace talks and first Karafuto expedition
U.S. Army
SCAP Staff, Manila and Tokyo
Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, supreme commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP)
Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, General MacArthur’s chief of staff
Brig. Gen. Otis (n) DeWitt, aide to General Sutherland
Col. Sydney Mashbir, Japanese-language expert and chief negotiator, Manila
Maj. Clive W. Neidemeier, State Department liaison, Ie Shima Air Base/Atsugi Air Base
Karafuto (Sakhalin) Expeditions
First expedition: USAAF C-54, tail number 626384 (Hot Rod 384)
Second expedition: USAAF C-54 744326 (Apprentice 26)
Maj. Marvin F. (Bucky) Radcliff, pilot and aircraft commander, first expedition
1st Lt. Leroy Telford K. Peoples, copilot, first expedition; pilot and aircraft commander, second expedition
Capt. Jonathan L. (Jon) Berne, navigator, first and second expeditions
2nd Lt. Richard W. Lassiter, copilot, second expedition
Sgt. Leonard (n) Hammer, flight sergeant, engineer, first and second expeditions
GySgt. Ulysses Gaylord (Ugly) Harper, USMC, squad leader of thirteen Marines, first expedition
GySgt. Horace T. Boland, USMC, squad leader of thirteen Marines, second expedition
Colin Blinde, agent, Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
San Pedro, California
Maj. Helen Durand Ingram, U.S. Army, Todd Ingram’s wife; floor nurse, Ward 6, Fort MacArthur Infirmary
Emma Peabody, Todd and Helen Ingram’s next-door neighbor on South Alma Street
Maj. Julian T. Raduga, MD, U.S. Army, psychiatrist, Fort MacArthur Infirmary
Cpl. Eddie Bergen, patient, Ward 6, Fort MacArthur Infirmary; previously U.S. Army M-4 tanker on Okinawa
Hollywood, California
Laura West, pianist, NBC Symphony Orchestra, West Coast Division
Maestro Arturo Toscanini, conductor, NBC Symphony Orchestra, West Coast Division
Roberta Thatcher, business manager, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Anoushka Dezhnev, Russian film star; mother of Eduard Dezhnev
Soviets
USSR Navy
Captain Third Rank Eduard Ianovich Dezhnev, garrison commander, 21st Naval Regiment, Shakhtyorsk Airfield, Sakhalin Island
Captain First Rank Gennady Kulibin, Dezhnev’s immediate superior at Shakhtyorsk Airfield, Sakhalin; later, commanding officer of the cruiser Admiral Volshkov
NKVD (Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh del), Soviet Secret Service, predecessor of the MGB and KGB
Karol Dudek, Polish assassin
Oleg Lepechn, agent, Shakhtyorsk Airfield, Sakhalin
Matvie Borzakov, agent, Shakhtyorsk Airfield, Sakhalin
Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
Captain Shiroku Fujimoto, commander minefields of Tokyo Bay and environs
Major Kotoku Fujimoto, commander Toro Airfield, Karafuto (Sakhalin), Imperial Japanese Marines
International Red Cross
Walter Frederick Boring, Geneva, Switzerland; representative assigned to the northeast Asia sector