File:Popov Maxwell cake.jpg

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English: Soviet Navy Rear Admiral Boris Dmitrievich Popov, commander of the 5th Independent Brigade of Soviet Navy Ships at Cold Bay, Territory of Alaska, cuts a cake while his counterpart, United States Navy Captain William Stewart Maxwell (right), commanding officer of U.S. Navy Detachment 3294 at Cold Bay and overall commander of the Project Hula ship transfer and tranining program there, and members of their staffs look on during a party in Popov's honor on Memorial Day 1945, probably at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
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Source Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, page 20. Caption information from same source.
Author United States Navy photo via National Archives

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30 May 1945

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