Colour footage, dated 27 August 1945, of the battleship HMS King George V, probably on passage for Tokyo Bay – her escorts, the destroyers HMS Whelp and HMS Wager, are not featured. The flagship is flying huge ensigns for identity purposes, as the period between an enemy’s ending hostilities (15 August) and the signing of the instrument of surrender (2 September) is always a fragile peace. The US battleship is almost certainly USS Missouri going to the same place, just a week before the formal surrender.