MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-09-09. WATCHED BY A LARGE CROWD GENERAL ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Halmahera Island, Morotai Island
Accession Number OG3474
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Harrison, John Thomas
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-09-09. WATCHED BY A LARGE CROWD GENERAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY SIGNS THE INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER BY THE JAPANESE AFTER MAKING HIS BLUNT STATEMENT "I DO NOT RECOGNISE YOU AS AN HONOURABLE AND GALLANT FOE".