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Japanese going home
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese troops from Muschu Island Prisoner-of-War Camp off the coast at Wewak, boarding the Japanese demilitarised cruiser "Kashima" for repatriation to Japan.ART25251
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Japanese guards buying vegetables, March 1945
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This composition depicts the Japanese guards from the prisoner-of-war camps in Changi area purchasing the better class vegetables for themselves from Chinese stalls, Australians providing improvised t...ART25082
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Japanese Head
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Plaster model for 'Japanese Head'. Head of a Japanese Engineer Officer, POW, Rabaul. The bust stands on a wooden oval base.ART26755
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Japanese identity disc for prisoner of war : Private L C Daniels, 1 Field Bakery Company, AIF
Heraldry
Rectangle of grey metal with one side having black written Japanese characters (probably the man's rank) and the pressed number: QX 9960. A strip of khaki cotton drill with button hole at one end is p...REL/15327
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Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Private Record
INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER OF JAPANESE FORCES AND WARLIKE STORES ON THE ISLAND OF BOUGAINVILLE AND ADJACENT ISLANDS. PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE OF SURRENDER DOCUMENT.EXDOC137
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Japanese interpreter (Miro Fujita)
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a Japanese interpreter, Miro Fujita in Timor during the Second World War.ART26605
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Japanese katana sword with scabbard
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Army katana sword and scabbard, with bamboo surrender block. The hilt has a cotton tape binding and is covered in a tight leather cover, that is cross-laced through metal eyelets. It has a ka...REL38199
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(Japanese National)
Private Record
CAPTURED JAPANESE MATERIAL INCLUDING PAGES FROM DIARIES OR NOTEBOOKS. BLANK SHEETS BEARING JAPANESE CHARACTERSPR84/015
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40,000 Japanese negotiate surrender: Halmahera Force
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Six Patrol Torpedo boats left Morotai for the Halmaheras for a rendezvous with the Japanese Commander of the Moluccas Lieutentant General Ischii who commanded 40,000 troops on the Halmaheras and Morot...F01249
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[Japanese newsreel on the conquest of the Philippines]
Film
A Japanese newsreel on the conquest of the Philippines. Coverage of the victory parade in Manila which includes contingents from the Italian and German communities and Thai students. The surrender of ...F10191
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Japanese Panoramic Sight
Technology
Japanese panoramic gun sight with magnification of 3 power, fixed focus, and a field of view of 13 degrees. Markings: Impressed into dial plate "499B", left side of upper prism holder "3 x 13 degrees...REL28016
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Japanese patrol in Tarakan
Film
Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
After the cessation of hostilities and leaflets had been dropped on the remaining Japanese who were still in the hilly country of Tarakan, Japanese prisoners were asked to go out on patrols to bring i...F07369
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Japanese positions, Wewak
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view looking West from the main range showing the Japanese positions behind Wewak Point after Victory in Europe Day, 1945.ART28194
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Japanese POWs
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
After trekking out of the hills above Wewak Point, Japanese prisoners of war are shown as they await internment on Muschu Island; some prisoners are embarking on a landing craft behind. Most of these ...ART29852
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Japanese prisoner, (Bougainville)
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
Portrait of a Japanese soldier at Bougainville, New Guinea. 'At this time prisoners were very scarce and our Intelligence objected for reasons of their own to portraying any of them. The one I painted...ART22850
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Japanese Prisoners
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts three unidentified Japanese prisoners. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appointment as ...ART23251
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Japanese prisoners getting medicine, Babiang
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Shows a group of unidentified Australian soldier providing medicine for unidentified Japanese prisoners, Babiang, New Guinea.ART26756
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Japanese prisoners surrender
Film
Maker: Driver, Roy
Shots taken from American gunboat with loud speakers fitted to bow as it cruises along jungle foreshore calling on Japanese to surrender. Japanese on shore waving white flags and in water wading out t...F01628
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Japanese 51st Division Headquarters flag captured at Lae, 16 September 1943: 'D' Company, 2/25 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Scarlet and white cotton fish-tail flag flown above the Lae headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army's 51st Division. The flag is made up from three lengths of cotton, sewn horizontally, with a vert...REL/12746
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"Japanese Surrender"
Art
Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
Drawing titled "Japanese Surrender" by E H Marcuse. Ernest Marcuse (1900 – 1985) was a German born Jewish artist. Marcuse (V377746) served in the Australian Army, 4th Employment Company in the Second...AWM2018.254.52
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Japanese surrender at Kuching
Film
Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
On board a RAN corvette Kapunda, moored in Sarawak River, 437351 (SX3295) Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick DSO ED, Commander, Royal Artillery, 9 Australian Division, accepted the surrender of Major Ge...F07329
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1. Japanese surrender at Wewak 2. Hospital ships bring home sick POW.
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 36 sec) 13 Sep 1945. Cape Wom Airstrip Wewak, New Guinea, veteran 6th Division in impressive ceremony at Japanese surrender. Lieutenant-General Adachi signs the surrender before Major Genera...F00821
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Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri, September 1945
Sound
Maker: MacArthur, Douglas
Commentary and description of the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay Japan, 2 September 1945. Representatives of the Japanese government and military representatives of the all...S00032
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Japanese Sword Scabbard
Technology
Steel Japanese Imperial Army sword scabbard with a brown leather cover laced up at the throat and a single loose ring on a band.RELAWM27426.002
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Japanese Telescopic Gun Sight
Technology
Maker: Nikko
Japanese telescopic gun sight. This instrument is a fixed focus type with a magnification 4 x and a field of view of 6 degree. There is a graduated sight bar which is adjustable by milled knob on top ...RELAWM29738
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Japanese Telescopic Gun Sight
Technology
Maker: Nikko
Japanese telescopic gun sight. This instrument is a fixed focus type with a magnification 4 x and a field of view of 6 degree. There is a graduated sight bar which is adjustable by milled knob on top ...RELAWM29739
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Japanese Telescopic Gun Sight
Technology
Maker: Nikko
Japanese telescopic gun sight. Model number unknown. This instrument is a fixed focus type with a magnification 4 x and a field of view of 6 degree. There is a graduated sight bar which is adjustable ...RELAWM29735
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Japanese Telescopic Gun Sight
Technology
Maker: Nikko
Japanese telescopic gun sight. Model number unknown. This instrument is a fixed focus type with a magnification 4 x and a field of view of 6 degree. There is a graduated sight bar which is adjustable...RELAWM29736
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Japanese Telescopic Gun Sight
Technology
Maker: Nikko
Japanese telescopic gun sight. This instrument is a fixed focus type with a magnification 4 x and a field of view of 6 degree. There is a graduated sight bar which is adjustable by milled knob on top ...RELAWM29737
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Japanese Type 93 75cm Base Line Stereoscopic Range Finder and Metal Box
Technology
Japanese Type 93 75 cm base line stereoscopic range finder in metal box. The instrument consists of a long tube with two circular openings cut into each end at approximately 75 cm from one another. Th...RELAWM28208
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Japanese Type 96 Telescopic Machine Gun Sight
Technology
Japanese Type 96 telescopic machine gun sight. This instrument is for use with the Japanese Type 92 7.7mm Heavy Machine Gun. The sight is attached to the weapon by a dove tailed bracket with a spring ...RELAWM28220
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Japanese Type 96 Telescopic Machine Gun Sight in Canvas Case: Captured by 31/51 Australian Infantry Battalion at Mausu Island.
Technology
Japanese Type 96 telescopic machine gun sight in khaki painted canvas case. This instrument is for use with the Japanese Type 92 7.7mm Heavy Machine Gun. The sight is attached to the weapon by a dovet...RELAWM27310
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Japanese Wakizashi Sword Blade : Surrendered by Abe Tadaichi, Imperial Japanese Navy Intelligence Service, to Major Phillips at Halmahera.
Technology
Japanese Wakizashi Sword Blade with a single peg hole in the tang and a two character signature. The Japanese polisher Kotoken Kajihara described this blade in 1983 as: "Jihada and Hamon are good. Swo...RELAWM31957.002
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Japanese Wakizashi Sword Mountings
Technology
Japanese wakizashi sword mountings. The hilt is grey leather covered over wood with a plain ribbed fushi but the binding, menuki and kashira are missing.The round tsuba is plain iron with a pierced le...RELAWM32820.001
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Japan (World at war)
Film
Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Japanese experience of the war, and the Allies' experience of the Japanese.F10222-22
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Katayama, Hideo (Lieutenant (IJA), b.? - d.1947)
Manuscript
Maker: Katayama, Hideo
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Lieutenant Hideo Katayama, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan, Netherlands East Indies, and Pacific Islands, 1946. Katayama was a devout Christian J...MSS0743
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King, Bruce Joseph Charles
Manuscript
Maker: King, Bruce Joseph Charles
A digital file (PDF) consisting of a 51-page typed illustrated manuscript titled "BOUGAINVILLE 1944-1945. Bougainville as one soldier saw it and lived it. His mission and his stories", written and com...MSS2152
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Kitamoto, Masamichi (2nd Lieutenant, Independent Engineering 30th Regiment HQ 51st Division, Japanese Army)
Manuscript
Maker: Kitamoto, Masamichi
MANUSCRIPT TITLED "A RECORD OF MARATHON ADVENTURES IN THE NEW GUINEA WAR". DESCRIBES VOYAGE FROM RABAUL TO NEW GUINEA TO CONTACT THE ISOLATED 51ST DIVISION, OPERATION NO 81, THE "KITAMOTO ENGINEERS", ...MSS0679
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Kokoda (Anzac TV series)
Film
Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Kokoda (Anzac TV series)F10034-02
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Kokoda the bloody track
Film
Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
Documentary made for the 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign. Features on camera interviews with Australian and Japanese veterans of the campaign intercut with archival footage.F03744
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Kurogane Type 95 scout car engine
Technology
Maker: Nihon Nainenki
Gasoline engine from a Kurogane 'black medal' scout car, 4 by 4, type 95. Type: 4 cycle, 45 degree v, 2- cylinder, air cooled capacity: 1399cc transmission: selective sliding type, 3 forward and 1 re...REL/12297
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Labuan, Borneo. 16 September 1945. Front view of the body of Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Suga, ...
Photograph
Maker: Wright, H R
Labuan, Borneo. 16 September 1945. Front view of the body of Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Suga, formerly Commandant of Prisoner of War Compounds at Kuching and Sandakan. He was apprehended as a war cri...030263/03
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Lieutenant General Baba Masao
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Lieutenant General Baba Masao (Baba is his surname), General Commanding 37th Japanese Army, surrendered his sword to Major General G F Wooten CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), DSO, a...ART22984
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Lieutenant K Yamamoto, war criminal
Art
Maker: Newton, Max
A side profile portrait of Lieutenant K Yamamoto, war criminal. Max (Thomas Maxwell) Newton enlisted with the AIF. He was seconded to the RAAF War History Section as an Official War Artist in 1945. He...ART26812
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Lieutenant Mitsuba
Art
Maker: Thompson, Robert
Portrait of Lieutenant Mitsuba. The inscription in the upper right corner reads: Lt Mitsuba personally beheaded an unknown number of prisoners. An Indian lieutenant said that one man did not die qui...ART28710
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Lieutenant Yokajima
Private Record
Typed English translation of part of a Japanese officer's diary, spanning December 1942 to January 1943. Obtained by Captain Noel Chenhall (a doctor at an American base at Torokina). Diary illustrates...PR00632
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Linesman's Hand Wire Reel (Japan)
Technology
Japanese shoulder carried signals wire reel unit. The unit has two perforated metal wheels mounted on an axle. A short stub handle is attached to the axle ends. A thumb operated brake arrests the ro...RELAWM29507
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Linoleum floor covering : Singapore surrender table
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Linoleum (or rubber) floor covering from the board room of the Ford Company of Malaya. This was the original covering at the time of the surrender and, according to Warrant Officer Balsillie who arra...RELAWM32784
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Looking from Kokakoc towards Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
At Kokakoc the Japanese were well dug in and resisted solidly. In the distance is Scarlet Beach where the initial landing of the Finschhafen campaign took place, New Guinea.ART21034
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Machine gun Armoured Shield (Japan)
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese infantry shield consisting of an armoured steel plate 11 3/4" x 12", with two points on the base for digging in the ground, with a recess at top right for a rifle or light machine gun. On the...RELAWM29881
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Magata (Major-General)
Private Record
Postcard in Japanese, origin unknown. Copy of a letter from Magata to Brigadier Garrett concerning the handing over of Japanese swords, and the importance attached to these 'Nipponto'. Copy of a poem ...PR00357
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Maruzen Mechanical Calculator: Model 18
Technology
Maker: Maruzen Calculating Machine Co. Ltd. Maruzen Calculating Machine Co. Ltd.
Japanese mechanical high speed mathematical calculator. Pinwheel type with rotating cursors. It is a development of an original design invented in 1873 by W. T. Odhner, a Swedish migrant to Russia. ...RELAWM27265
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Matsushima, Hichi-Hei (Warrant Officer, 3rd Bn, 5th Regt, Japanese Imperial Army)
Private Record
Maker: Matsushima, Hichi-Hei
UNTITLED EIGHT LINE POEM COMPOSED DURING W O MATSUSHIMA'S CAPTIVITY AT COWRA POW CAMPPR83/030
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McAulay, Lex (Historian, b.1939)
Private Record
Maker: McAulay, Alexander Hugh
RESEARCH PAPERS INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE WITH JAPANESE AND AMERICAN EXSERVICEMEN AND COPIES OF RECORDS IN AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN REPOSITORIES ASSEMBLED FOR HIS BOOK "INTO THE DRAGON'S JAWS: THE FIFTH...PR87/165
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Meiji Type 26 Revolver
Technology
Meiji Type 26 double action six shot 9 mm revolver. Break open hinged action with a top locking clip and a block type hammer without a spur. The right side has the Koishigawa factory mark over five Ja...RELAWM28170.001
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Metal data plate off Generator HMAS Voyager (1)
Technology
Metal plate off a generator on HMAS Voyager. Plate shows Laurence Scott & Co. Ltd. Makers and details of the generator.RELAWM27104
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Mission to Wewak
Film
Maker: 5th Airforce Combat Camera Unit
Covers the raid on the Japanese Fourth Air Army at Wewak on 17 August 1943 by the US Fifth Airforce. General Kenney had ordered an all out assault after intelligence reports of the concentration of Ja...F01898
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105 mm Improvised artillery mortar spigot shell
Technology
Maker: Japanese Armed Forces
This is an improvised spigot shell which was fired from a 105 mm improvised mortar - see RELAWM 36878. It was fabricated from a 105 mm High Explosive artillery shell (as used in the Type 91 howitzer)...RELAWM33904
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75 mm Type 88 (1928) Anti Aircraft Gun
Technology
The Japanese Type 88 (1928) 75 mm anti aircraft gun was the standard anti aircraft weapon of the Japanese Army during the Second World War. The breechblock is a horizontal sliding, semi-automatic desi...RELAWM30147.001
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75 mm Type 88 Anti-Aircraft Gun Brass Trajectory Quadrant
Technology
Brass quadrant for Japanese 75 mm Type 88 Anti-Aircraft Gun to compute elevation. This is one of two brass quadrants which are located on each side of the gun. It represents the elevation quadrant of ...REL27324
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75 mm Type 88 Anti-aircraft gun Gunner's Clinometer in Wooden Box
Technology
Japanese 75mm Type 88 Anti-aircraft gun gunners quadrant in wooden box. It consists of a stainless steel body with a curved graduated scale. A hole for the pivot of the arm is bored through it. The ar...RELAWM28237
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37 mm Type 94 Anti Tank Gun
Technology
The gun has a semi-automatic, horizontal sliding breech block. The gun is mounted on a split trail carriage with wooden wheels fitted with steel rims. The recuperator is of the hydrospring type and is...RELAWM36945
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20 mm Type 97 Anti-tank Rifle
Technology
Type 97 Anti-tank semi automatic rifle. The receiver is marked with the Kokura arsenal symbol of the three interlocking rings, 15.8 (August 1940) and the serial number. IT is an all metal contruction ...RELAWM27098
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105 mm Type 92 (1932) Field Gun
Technology
The 105 mm Type 92 (1932) Field Gun is readily recognized by its long slender barrel and trail. The recoil mechanism is hydro-pneumatic in which the air is in direct contact with the liquid in the rec...REL/19476
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75 mm Type 41 Field gun (Japan)
Technology
75mm Field gun with hydrospring recoil mechanism. Cradle is mounted on a carriage with iron rimmed wooden spoked wheels. The trail is constructed from two parallel tubular steel trails which clamp to ...PROP00503
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75 mm Type 41 Field gun (Japan)
Technology
75mm Field gun with hydrospring recoil mechanism. Cradle is mounted on a carriage with iron rimmed wooden spoked wheels. The trail is constructed from two parallel tubular steel trails which clamp to ...RELAWM36886
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70 mm Type 92 Howitzer (Japan)
Technology
Japanese battalion gun Model 92 70 mm Howitzer mounted on a carriage fitted with wooden wheels with steel rims. The gun is provided with a split trail, which when closed forms the towing unit. The tra...RELAWM36874
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70 mm Type 92 Howitzer (Japan)
Technology
Japanese infantry battalion howitzer Model 92. The breech mechanism is hand operated, interrupted screw type and hinged to the barrel, and in operation rotates one quarter turn and drops down to the r...RELAWM36960
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50 mm Type 89 Mortar Bomb
Technology
Japanese 50 mm Type 89 Mortar Bomb with nose fuze. The body is a cylinder of 50 mm diameter and 111 mm length with a round end on the front. The body is steel except for a 16 mm brass band located 5 m...REL23063
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50 mm Type 98 Mortar Wooden Spigot
Technology
Charge container and wooden spigot for 50 mm discharger Type 98. Consists of a wooden spigot 1 and 7/8" in diameter, onto which is attached a welded steel box 4.87 " on each side and 8.6" long. The e...RELAWM27245
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75 mm Type 94 Pack Howitzer (Japan)
Technology
This model was introduced in 1934 as an improvement of the 75mm type 41 mountain gun. It was a modern design by WWII standards having a horizontal sliding breech block, split trails and hydropneumatic...RELAWM36885
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50 mm Type 98 (1938) Spigot Mortar Barrel & Bipod
Technology
Maker: State Arsenal, Japan
The Type 98 (1938) 50 mm Mortar was designed to fire a spigot bomb or a bangalore torpedo with fins to detonate barbed wire. The mortar consists of three parts: a rectangular, sectioned base plate, ba...RELAWM33577.001
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Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa 'Oscar': Engine cowling propeller and mount
Technology
Maker: Nakajima Hikoki KK
Engine cowling propellor and mount from a Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa (Peregrine Falcon) all metal single engine low wing monoplane fighter aircraft. This machine is believed to have been constructed...REL/12326.003
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Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa 'Oscar': Mainplane/cockpit
Technology
Maker: Nakajima Hikoki KK
The mainplane/cockpit section from a Nakajima Ki.-43-II Hayabusa (Peregrine Falcon) all metal single engine low wing monoplane fighter aircraft. This machine is believed to have been constructed in 19...REL/12326.002
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Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa 'Oscar' : Rear fuselage and tailplane
Technology
Maker: Nakajima Hikoki KK
The rear fuselage section and tailplane from a Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa (Peregrine Falcon) all metal single engine low wing monoplane fighter aircraft. This machine is believed to have been construc...REL/12326.001
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Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Technology
Nambu Type 14 semi automatic pistol. Machined blued steel frame and top slide with a three ring knurled cocking knob at the rear. It has a safety lever on the left side and a small trigger guard. The ...REL/02315
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Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Technology
Nambu Type 14 semi automatic pistol. Machined blued steel frame and top slide with a three ring knurled cocking knob at the rear and a safety lever on the left side. The frame is stamped on the left s...REL26978.001
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Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Technology
Maker: Nagoya Army Ordnance Factory
Nambu Type 14 semi automatic pistol. Machined blued steel frame and top slide with a three ring knurled cocking knob at the rear. It has a safety lever on the left side and a large trigger guard. The ...RELAWM29579.001
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Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Technology
Maker: Nagoya Army Ordnance Factory
Nambu Type 14 semi automatic pistol. Machined blued steel frame and top slide with a three ring knurled cocking knob at the rear and a safety lever on the left side. The frame is stamped on the left s...REL/01172.001
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Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Technology
Maker: Nagoya Army Ordnance Factory
Nambu Type 14 semi automatic pistol. Machined blued steel frame and top slide with a three ring knurled cocking knob at the rear. It has a safety lever on the left side and a large trigger guard. The ...RELAWM24959.001
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Nambu Type 14 Pistol Holster
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Nambu Type 14 Pistol Holster. Brown leather with the top cover flap removed. The front has a pouch for spare ammunition and a slot for a spare firing pin. The rear has a single belt loop (bottom stitc...REL26978.002
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Nature Morte
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
This work depicts the remains of a party of Japanese who crossed in canoes from the mainland of Borneo to the island of Labuan and hid in the swamps of Garankak. After carrying on commando tactics for...ART22182
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Nippon News [1942?]
Film
Maker: Nippon Eigasha
Nippon News newsreel produced Nippon Eigasha [Japan Movie Company] 1. Standing before a Japanese national flag General Hideki Tojo addresses the nation 2. A montage of weapons production; tanks, aircr...F03354
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Ogawa, (given names unknown) (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Private Record
Maker: Ogawa, (given names unknown)
Collection consists of a hand-written, diary kept by unidentified Japanese sailor with the family name of Ogawa. The diary contains some pre-printed informational pages and illustrations. The hand-wr...3DRL/6891
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Order of the Sacred Treasure 8th Class
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Order of the Sacred Treasure 8th Class. Obverse: A silver eight pointed star with ball ends and small roundels between the arms. In the centre is an eight pointed, polished silver disc (mirror) raised...RELAWM31361.001
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Order of the Sacred Treasure 8th Class lapel badge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Order of the Sacred Treasure 8th Class Lapel Badge. A small rosette made from a piece of grey/blue ribbon, with a yellow three armed emblem in the centre and a copper button hole disc at the rear.RELAWM31361.002
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Pacific (World at war)
Film
Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Pacific (World at war)F10222-23
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Packing of medical stores for troops who accept Japanese surrender
Film
Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
The medical stores being packed in this film are to be issued to troops who go on patrol to accept Japanese surrenders. They are designed to be used for any Australian prisoners of war who may be enco...F07310
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Phillips, Max (Major, Surveillance Party, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Phillips, Maxwell
COVERING NOTES IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE GIVEN TO MAJOR PHILLIPS ON RECEIPT OF A TSURUGI SWORD, SPEAR BLADE AND MEMORIAL FLAG, PRESENTED BY VARIOUS JAPANESE OFFICERS DURING SURVEILLANCE PARTY DUTIES ON ...PR83/036
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POW compound, Torokina
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
The artist painted this picture before the surrender. At that time there were only about eight prisoners in the compound. A whitish-looking dead tree, with angular branches against the background was ...ART22845
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Pushing a skip, Tavoy Aerodrome
Art
Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Australian and Allied prisoners of war, captured by the Japanese Army at Singapore, pushing a skip load of ballast while working on the extension to the aerodrome.ART28535.026
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Rajah's Palace at Kuching
Film
Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Views of the Astana (native for Rajah's Palace) situated on the north bank of the Sarawak River. The Palace was used by General Yanamura as Japanese headquarters, Sarawak, and is now Kuching Relief Fo...F07332
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recto: Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.09...; verso: Japanese infantry weapons
Art
Maker: Information and Education Section USAFFE U S Government printing office
Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.09 published 29 March 1945. It features the headlines 'Capture of Walled City Frees Manila' and 'YANKS DRIVE TOWARD COLOGNE' with an illustrated feature identifyin...ARTV02686
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recto: Rear verandah Australia House, Ye; verso: not titled [unfinised sketches]
Art
Maker: Korsch, John Donald
The rear verandah of one of the dirty, dilapidated huts which was used as a staging camp for Australian and Allied prisoners of war during their shift from Tavoy up country to work on a Japanese railw...ART28535.030
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Release of Indian POW
Film
Maker: Edwards, Reg J
The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Barcoo accompanied by two Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats and an escort of Spitfires, rendezvoued off the coast of Miti Island, near Halmahera Island, with the Japanes...F01689
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Repatriation of Japanese the 18th Army
Film
Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
On 26 November 1945, some one thousand one hundred Japanese troops of the 18th Army held on Muschu Island, boarded the Japanese cruiser Kashima for repatriation. Prior to sailing, an inspection of the...F07380
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Rifleman's kill
Art
Maker: Rafty, Tony
Depicting an incident when a patrol was attacking the Japanese at night on the slopes below Yaula. Q138283, Private J O'Donohue, is seen in position behind a tree whilst N450063, Private S Ralph is be...ART25153
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Robert Harby Gilbert Jelley, ex POW medical personel ex Burma-Thailand railway, interviewed by Dr John H Mitchell
Sound
Maker: Jelley, Robert Harby Gilbert Mitchell, John
Robert Jelley, formerly Bombardier, 4th Anti-Tank Unit, relates experiences as POW of Japanese. the interview begins with his recital of a poem he's written to memorialise the escape, capture and exe...S01403
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Ryosuke Terada (Japanese soldier) IN BURMA
Private Record
Letter in Japanese from the mother of Ryosuke Terada, an Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldier serving in Burma, to military authorities in Japan, seeking information about his whereabouts and fate, an...PR00834