~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association History Project ~

Photo A0202: Members of B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 8th U.S. Army shortly after their arrival in Tokyo, Japan in August 1945.  The group is standing in the parking lot of the Japanese Central Police Headquarters opposite Sakuradamon ("Cherry Gate") at the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. Notice the B Company Patrol Jeep B14 and the Paddy Wagon, a modified 3/4 ton Dodge weapons carrier. General MacArthur's headquarters in the Daiichi Building is just one block away. Courtesy of PFC John E. “Jack” Marquardt, D, B & HQ Company, 720th MP Battalion, 8th U.S. Army, Tokyo, Occupied Japan, 1946-1948.

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