Evatt, G S :Photographs of the Japanese surrender in the Second World War

Date
1944-1945
By
New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force; Evatt, Gerald Sinclair, 1906-1981
Reference
PAColl-0338
Description

Photographs of the Japaneses capitulation in South East Asia and the Pacific, particularly Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They include a number of photographs of Japanese prisoners of war being marched to camps; the signing of surrender documents by Australian officers; painting Japan Surrenders on the underside of RAAF plane wings to inform Japanese forces; the announcement of the Japanese surrender by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Singapore; the Duke of Gloucester, Governor General of Australia, visiting troops; a Japanese tank on fire; and earlier photographs of Allied forces on Bougainville in 1944. The photographs are nearly all official Royal New Zealand Air Force and are captioned on the reverse. Also included with the collection is a copy of New Zealand Freemason frm May 1977 which includes a photograph of the NZEF Masonic Association meeting in 1918 in France..

Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Format
40 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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