Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

314 items in this album on 16 pages.


Preparing a Corsair aircraft for flight aboard HMS Glory, off Rabaul, New Britain, 6 Sep 1945	PT-377, an 80-foot Elco boat with MTB Squadron 27, transporting Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (not pictured) and staff to the signing of the Japanese surrender of Borneo aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945	PT-377, an 80-foot Elco boat with MTB Squadron 27, transporting Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (seated) and staff to the signing of the Japanese surrender of Borneo aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945	Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (far left) surrendering Japanese Naval forces on Borneo to Australian Major General Edward Milford aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945.

Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey signing the surrender for Japanese forces throughout the Dutch East Indies, Morotai, 9 Sep 1945.	Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey witnessing Japanese Second Army Lt General Fusataro Teshima signing the instrument of surrender for Japanese forces throughout the Dutch East Indies, Morotai, 9 Sep 1945. Photo 1 of 2	Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey witnessing Japanese Second Army Lt General Fusataro Teshima signing the instrument of surrender for Japanese forces throughout the Dutch East Indies, Morotai, 9 Sep 1945. Photo 2 of 2	Instrument of Surrender for the Japanese Second Army signed by Lt General Fusataro Teshima for the Japanese and General Sir Thomas Blamey for the Australian Military Forces, 9 Sep 1945 at Morotai.

Japanese Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ bomber at Pitoe, Morotai with staff of Japanese Lt General Fusataro Teshima from Pinrang, Celebes (now Sulawesi) to surrender the Japanese Second Army to General Thomas Blamey, 9 Sep 1945	Lieutenant General Masao Baba en route to the official surrender ceremony, Labuan island, North Borneo, 10 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 3	Lieutenant General Masao Baba en route to the official surrender ceremony, Labuan, Borneo, 10 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 3	Lieutenant General Masao Baba en route to the official surrender ceremony, Labuan, Borneo, 10 Sep 1945, photo 3 of 3

Australian soldier Frederick Bishop driving Japanese Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi to the Wom Airstrip, New Guinea for the formal New Guinea surrender ceremony, 13 Sep 1945	Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi symbolically surrendered his sword to Australian Major General H. C. H. Robertson at Wom Airstrip, New Guinea, 13 Sep 1945	Soldiers of Australian 37/52 Infantry Battalion posing with captured Japanese Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tanks, near Lakunai airstrip and Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 14 Sep 1945	Japanese Maj. General Michio Uno of the 37th Army lays down his sword at the feet of Australian Army Lt Colonel Ewan Murray Robson at Bandjermasin, Borneo, 17 Sep 1945.

Recently liberated (by Australian troops) Chinese prisoners of war originally of Chinese 88th Division, New Britain, Territory of New Guinea, 17 Sep 1945	Captured A6M5 Model 52 Zero fighters and one Ki-46 reconnaissance aircraft at the RNZAF airfield at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, 18 Sep 1945	Group portrait of Japanese soldiers formerly assigned to the Lintang prisoner of war camp, Kuching, Sarawak, 18 Sep 1945	Japanese tank crew bringing a Type 95 Ha-Go light tank to men of Australian 2/4 Armoured Regiment after surrendering Rapopo Airfield, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 28 Sep 1945