[Photograph 2012.201.B1142.0155]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pfc. Paul E. Davis, a native of Fairland and the first American serviceman to enter Tokyo after the Japanese surrendered, pins a corsage on Miss Nelle Rycroft, his old school teacher, who a few minutes before presented the 39-year-oldsoldier his high school diploma."
Date: December 20, 1948
Creator: Sparlin, Orrick
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History