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The British officer carrying the white flag in the photograph of the surrender at Singapore on P. 44 of the article “Translating for the ‘Tiger,’” [by Suzanne Pool-Camp, May 2021] was then Maj. (later Col.) Cyril Wild, who had a similar role to U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Harry Pratt in translating for Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita.

Wild spent several years before World War II in Tokyo, where he

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