Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

314 items in this album on 16 pages.


Commander Harold Farncomb at the bridge of cruiser HMAS Shropshire, 3 Jul 1945	Private Aubrey Carl Kotz and Private W. Spence of 7 Platoon, A Company, Australian 2/10 Battalion during Battle of Balikpapan, Borneo, 3 Jul 1945; note PIAT	Australian Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee, 13 Jul 1945	Australian Privates J. Plunkett and Private K. T. Biddle firing a 2-inch mortar, Ulunkohoitu, Australian New Guinea, 18 Jul 1945

Australian Army Lieutenant MG Searles, 2/25 infantry battalion, inspecting a Japanese Jeep found abandoned on the Milford highway near Popes Track, Balikpapan area, Borneo, 22 Jul 1945	Australian soldiers posing with a captured Japanese Type 92 tankette and wrecked No. 42 Squadron RAAF Catalina aircraft, Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945	HMS Glory at Sydney, Australia, 1945	Members of the Australian Mission Group at the Japanese surrender talks, Japan, 20 Aug 1945; left to right: Cdre John Collins, Lt Gen Frank Berryman, Capt Roy Dowling, Air Cdre Raymond Brownell

Australian troops of 37/52nd infantry battalion loading gear onto a New Zealand PB2B-1 Catalina aircraft at Nantambu, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 22 Aug 1945	Captured A6M3 Model 22 Zero fighter, near Buin, Bougainvile, Sep 1945	Cockpit of a wrecked G4M bomber, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Sep 1945	HMS Colossus off Wusong, Shanghai, China, circa Sep 1945

HMS Glory at Rabaul, New Britain, Sep 1945	Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser signing the surrender instrument on behalf of the United Kingdom aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 3	General Kuzma Nikolaivich Derevyenko signing the surrender instrument on behalf of the Soviet Union aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	Xu Yongchang signing the surrender document on behalf of China aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 5

Corsair fighter in an elevator aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2	Corsair fighter in an elevator aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2	Corsair fighter landing on HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945	Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura signing the surrender document aboard HMS Glory off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945; Vice Admiral Junichi Kusaka and Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee were also present