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AIF in the NEI: surrender of the Japanese Army at Morotai
Film
Maker: Smythe, Graham Norman
Morotai, September 1945. This film was taken by VX113924 Lieutenant Graham Norman Smythe 7 Australian Mechanical Spare Parts Section RAE at Morotai. Scenes include the arrival of United States lst a...F03591
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Anonymous (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Private Record
HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF JAPANESE SEAMAN DESCRIBING ENLISTMENT AND TRAINING, POSTING TO NAVAL FLYING CORPS IN KEELUNG AND SUBSEQUENT FIELD SERVICE. SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS IN ENGLISHPR86/202
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1. Army salvage finds use for discarded uniforms 2. Daring Japanese raiders sunk in Sydney Harbour (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 25)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 33 sec) NSW Premier's wife joins workers in civilian war emergency clothing scheme making children's suits from damaged khaki 2. (4 min 10 sec) Japanese raid, Sydney Harbour, eye witness sto...F00348
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Atsuta inverted V-12 aero engine
Technology
Inverted V 12 aero engine. Extensive surface corrosion, missing many components such as drive shaft and supercharger. However, exhaust stubs are present. Other markings : Naval Inspection stamps on P...REL/16097
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Australian Military Forces
Private Record
Collection relating to the Australian Military Forces and the interrogation and surrender ceremony of the Japanese Second Army at Morotai, 15 August - 11 September 1945. Wallet 1 of 1 - This collecti...PR88/176
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Banzai (World at war)
Film
Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Japan enters the war with its attack on Pearl Harbour.F10222-06
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Camouflaged Jap lighter, Tenau submarine base
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Camouflaged Japanese lighter at the Submarine Base, Tenau, Timor.ART26144
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Captain Hori, Japanese Navy
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an officer of the 6th Japanese Naval Garrison, Captain Hori in Timor during the Second World War.ART26604
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Commander Japanese Imperial Navy
Art
Maker: Casey, Gordon Brown
Portrait of Commander of the Japanese Imperial Navy of the Marine Section, Ikegama Iwao.ART94051
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Conference between 6 Australian Division and Japanese officers
Film
Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
At 1400 hours on 22nd August 1945, Staff Officers of HQ 6th Australian Division and ATIS Translator boarded a Motor Launch at Cape Wom to proceed to Kairiru Island to hold a conference with Captain No...F07240
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Fall of Corregidor in Manila Bay 7th May (Nippon News 102)
Film
Maker: Nippon Eigasha Nippon News
Extract from Nippon News newsreel covering the United States surrender at Corregidor, Manila Bay, Philippines. Japanese Navy and Army officers moving away from camera along mountain track. Officers st...F06814
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Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) Leaflets, Second World War, 1939-1945
Published Collection
Maker: Far Eastern Liaison Office
The Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) Leaflet collection comprises approximately 500 propaganda leaflets were created and dropped in areas of Papua, New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies, Malaya and Sin...RC00266
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First Japanese envoys for surrender negotiations arrive at Balikpapan
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Japanese envoys Captain Tsujihashi, Lieutenant Commander Tsuneyo Nanda, Lieutenant Yoshifumi Kubota, all naval officers, and interpreters Nagashima and Ohdone with attendants bearing a basket of banan...ART25905
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Giyu, Sanura (Japanese Merchant Seaman/Cook)
Private Record
Maker: Giyu, Sanura
Log book of regulations for Japanese merchant seamen, issued to Giyu Sanura in 1928. Contains postcard, vaccination certificates and certificate of instruction in Western cooking. This book was pres...3DRL/6710
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Head of bearded Japanese prisoner (Aohi Katashi)
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Mechanical Construction Unit, the Stoker Aohi Katashi who was a prisoner during the Second World War.ART26606
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Honjo, Shigeru (38th Buntai (Sqn) Japanese Imperial Forces)
Private Record
Maker: Honjo, Shigeru
LETTER OF REMEMBRANCE WRITTEN BY DONOR FOR HIS CLASSMATE HIROYUKI SOTO WHO WAS KILLED IN THE MIDGET SUBMARINE ATTACK ON SYDNEY HARBOUR IN 1942. WITH TRANSLATIONPR87/092
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Imperial Japanese Navy NCO and sailor's khaki field cap
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Khaki-coloured woollen cap with visor and 10mm wide dark brown leather chin strap. The cap is ventilated in its crown by four 5mm diameter holes, each of which is reinforced around its circumference w...REL/01419
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Japanese evacuating Kahili
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese naval troops packing up to move to prisoner-of-war camp at Fauro Island. An unusual type of Japanese hut can be seen in the background, Bougainville.ART25234
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Japanese Forces - Milne Bay
Private Record
TRANSLATED EXTRACTS FROM THE WAR DIARIES OF 18 CRUISER SQN AND 25 AIR SQN, IJN, DETAILING OPERATIONS AT MILNE BAY IN AUG - SEPT 1942PR84/104
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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 going home
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese troops from Muschu Island Prisoner-of-War Camp oof the coast at Wewak, boarding the Japanese demilitarised cruiser "Kashima" for repatriaton to Japan, New Guinea.ART25250
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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, New Guinea.ART25249
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Japanese good luck flag : Naval engineer officer Kensaburo Kihara
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Printed rayon Japanese national flag presented to Imperial Japanese Navy engineer Second Lieutenant Kensaburo Kihara as symbol of good luck. Large characters across the top translate 'Going into the g...REL41180
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Japanese Katana Sword Blade
Technology
Japanese sword blade. It is described by Kotoken Kajihara, the Japanese sword polisher in 1983, as: "Few swords made in the Kamakura era have Ubu-Nakago. This Tachi blade was, however, made at that ti...REL/03861.002
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Japanese Naval M.P Sentry
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Detail note of Japanese uniform at Japanese Naval Headquarters, Buka Passage, Bougainville.ART25232
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Japanese Naval Officer's Kai-gunto Sword
Technology
Maker: Masahiro, Hattori
Japanese Naval Officer's sword (kai-gunto) . Blade tang marked Seki (Arsenal) Forges (post 1942), Mino Province, made by Masahiro. Family name unreadable. Wrapped around the tang was a postcard being ...REL/20363.001
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Japanese naval officers sword and scabbard : Lieutenant R P Cummins, 61 Battalion
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Naval Kai-gunto officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has the standard navy style gilded copper kai-gunto fittings. It has brown tape binding over black same (ray skin) and three cherry blos...REL41096
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Japanese Navy submariner's seaboot : C Dyer, Wood Coffill and Company
Heraldry
Maker: Iida and Co, Takashimaya Ltd
Brown leather right foot pull-on sea boot of sewn construction with a folded-down shaft, rounded roper-style toes and stacked leather heel nailed to the body with six nails. The boot is fitted with a ...REL/15547
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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 covering a visit by the Empress to an arms factory, tribute to Admiral Yamamato, campaign in the Aleutians and China] (Nippon Nyusu No. 155 = Japanese News No. 155)
Film
Maker: Nippon Eigasha
Opening titles: Nippon Nyusu [Japanese News] produced by Nippon Eigasha [Japanese Film Company]. "Defeat the enemy completely". Issue No 155. Topics covered: 1. Title: 'Take off hats. Empress visits a...F06851
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Japanese yosegaki hinomaru ['good luck' flag] with senninbari [1000 stitches] captured at Balikpapan: 2/12th Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Silk Japanese 'good luck' flag or yosegaki hinomaru, with senninbari, or 1000 lucky stitches in red (normally sewn on a separate belt of 1000 stitches) taking the place of the printed or sewn central ...AWM2022.810.7
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Kittyhawk fighters of 75 & 76 Sqdn RAAF strafing Jap tanks on Gilli Gilli Road, near Rabi, 28th Aug '42
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This scene shows the attack along Gilli Gilli Road, with aircraft flying over and tanks charging along. A dead soldier lays in on the road, his rifle to one side. Dargie noted, "These tanks, two of s...ART22172
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"Kongo" off Barrow, England
Art
Maker: Wyllie, William Lionel
Picture of the Japanese warship "Kongo" asail off Barrow-in-Furness in England. The first of the Kongo class battlecruisers, she was the among the most heavily armed of any naval vessel at the time of...ART31046
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Lieutenant (Junior Grade), sleeve rank insignia : Japanese Navy Air Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Naval Air Service junior grade lieutenant's sleeve rank badge. Square khaki cloth badge has a white woven braid a looped upper stripe over a narrower straight horizontal stripe.REL25158.005
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Living Skeleton
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Drawn at the Japanese Naval Headquarters Hospital, Buka Passage. One of the many Japanese who died through lack of skilled medical attention and neglect.ART25262
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Lofts, Alexander Hector (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Lofts, Alexander Hector
Collection relating to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) and United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) service of 237638 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hector Lofts, Australia...PR87/235
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Matsuo, Keiu (Lieutenant)
Private Record
Maker: Matsuo, Keiu
Collection relating to Second World War service of Lieutenant Keiu Matsuo, Imperial Japanese Navy. Collection consists of handwritten illustrated poems (in Japanese with English translations) written...3DRL/3967
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Matsuo, Keiu (Lieutenant, Imperial Japanese Navy)
Private Record
Maker: Matsuo, Keiu
HANDWRITTEN POEM IN JAPANESE COMPOSED BY LIEUTENANT KEIU MATSUO'S MOTHER TO COMMEMORATE HIS DEATH IN THE MIDGET SUBMARINE ATTACK ON SYDNEY HARBOUR ON 31 MAY 1942. SEE ALSO 3DRL/3967 FOR ANOTHER TRANSC...3DRL/7999
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McWilliam, Henry Hastings (Captain, b.1894 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: McWilliam, Henry Hastings
Collection relating to the service of Sub Lieutenant (later Captain) Henry Hastings McWilliam, Royal Navy. Collection consists of a typescript carbon copy of a diary kept by Captain McWilliam when se...1DRL/0467
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Meeting of Australian and Japanese envoys at Balikpapan
Film
Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
On 3 September 1945, an Australian envoy, NGX62 Captain Francis Adelbert Jacobsen, accompanied by a platoon from D Company, the 2/1st Australian Pioneer Battalion, met a Japanese envoy, Rear Admiral N...F07312
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120 mm Brass Shell Case (Japan)
Technology
Shell Case for 120mm 45 Calibre 10th Year type A/A Gun. The case is a heavy brass, with rimmed necked case lacquered internally. It is screw threaded at the base to receive the primer of the percussio...REL26058
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Model of HIJMS "Ibuki"
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
The model of HIJMS "Ibuki" (RELAWM08039). The model was gifted by the Japanese navy to the Australian War Memorial in 1925.J03246
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Movement of Japanese to Fauro Island
Film
Maker: Rintel, David Leslie
Japanese Marines and soldiers in the Buin area of South Bougainville were moved to concentration centres on the Fauro Island, loading at Buin and discharging at Fauro. Abandoned heavy Japanese equipme...F07334
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Nambu Type 94 Pistol
Technology
Maker: Nagoya Arsenal Torimatsu Factory
Nambu Type 94 semi automatic pistol. Solid machined blued steel frame with a cocking knob at the rear with serrated edges. The right side of the frame is stamped with the Nagoya Torimatsu Factory mark...RELAWM28171.001
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Old Japanese hut, Buka Passage
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Hut at Japanese Naval Headquarters Buka Passage, Bougainville. Sketch made during surrender negotiations.ART25246
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Periscope from Japanese Kairyu Midget Submarine
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Body of a periscope, with no handles or eyepiece, from a Japanese Kairyu Midget Submarine. There is a 52mm aperture near the base adjacent to which is stamped '106' and '77'. The base contains a threa...REL41075
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Petty Officer Tsuji
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Depicting portrait of Naval Petty Officer Tsuji, at Japanese Navy Headquarters, Buka Passage.ART25261
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1. Secrets of submarine revealed 2. Volunteers. Australia's home front 3. Army boxers show prowess in novel contests. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 34)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 34. 1. (1 min 38 sec) Japanese midget submarines on display after being raised from Sydney Harbour 2. (50 sec) Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) cavalry carry...F00356
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Senninbari (thousand stitch) belt : Chief Petty Officer Toyoshima Hajime, Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carrier Hiryu
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
A traditional Japanese senninbari '1000 stitch belt' made from white cotton. The belt consists of a central hand sewn design of a pair of pink flowers attached to a brown branch. The middle of each ...REL49365
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Signing of surrender document at 2 Australian Corps Torokina & General Kanda on board HMAS Diamantina
Film
Maker: Rintel, David Leslie Scale, Clement Stewart
At a conference held at 2 Australian Corps HQ in Torokina, the Japanese surrender party consisting of Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Kanda (Army) and Vice Admiral Samejima (Navy), signed the Surrender Pa...F07300
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Signing of surrender on board HMAS Burdekin
Film
Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
On 8th September 1945 on board HMAS Burdekin, Vice Admiral Kamada signed the document of surrender which surrendered all Japanese troops in Borneo to Major General E J Milford, GOC 7th Australian Div...F07311
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(SMS Emden, Imperial German Navy)
Private Record
Assorted papers related to the Sydney - Emden battle on 9 November 1914 including: printed battle plans; accounts by Captain Kato of HIJMS Ibuki; inspection of the wreck of the Emden; statement of hit...1DRL/0663
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Sorting Swords, Buka Passage, Bougainville
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese listing and sorting swords prior to handing them over. Japanese Naval Headquarters, Buka Passage, North Bougainville.ART23721
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Submarine dockyard, Kure
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese dockyard workers cleaning scrap from the bottom of a dock once almost filled with midget submarines and other junk.ART26376
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The End of a Raider
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
This Japanese Mitsubishi 'Betty' bomber, one of nearly a hundred attacking the Milne Bay area, at a height of 25,000', was brought down by Australian Kittyhawks who dived on them from 28,000'.ART23686
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The Middle East campaigns (Australians at war)
Film
Prelude - Greece, Crete - Syria - Western Desert. Tobruk - Australian political scene - Japan prepares - Lend-Lease - HMAS Sydney sunk - Pearl Harbour.F08007
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Type 15 B 3(a) bomb tail fuze (Navy)
Technology
Maker: Unknown
The B 3(a) bomb tail fuze is a double action impact type used for heavy (500 kg) air dropped ordnance. The propeller unscrews while the bomb is falling thereby freeing the arms which fly forward on i...REL42987
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Type 89 10 cm Anti-Aircraft Spotting Binoculars in Wooden Box: Japanese 19 Air Defence Troop, Buin, Bougainville
Technology
Binoculars in canvas covered wooden box. These binoculars are 15 power, with a field of view of 4 degrees. The right lens is graticuled 30mm up and down, right and left. The eyepieces are angled to t...RELAWM24696
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Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun
Technology
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun. All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver is stamped on the top with three Japanese characters indicating Type 92 an...RELAWM28914
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Type 93 No 2 Naval Respirator (Japan)
Heraldry
Japanese gas mask in fibre case. The mask has a Grey coloured facepiece in a fabric carrier bag. The facepiece has aluminium rimmed eyepieces. Ribbed tissot tube, and a grey filter canister.RELAWM24905
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Type 97 wireless telephone : Imperial Japanese Navy
Technology
Olive green Type 97 Lightweight Wireless Telephone (radio set). Manufacturer's Type YT-189. UZ-31MC marked internally below valve. Tuning and selector knobs on left side. Mounting bracket for aerial? ...REL28786.001
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Unknown Japanese sailor
Private Record
Papers of an unknown Japanese sailor collected by Sergeant William John Porter (2/9th Battalion), including service records, photographs and paper currency of the Japanese-occupied East Indies.PR00967
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Vice Admiral Japanese Imperial Navy
Art
Maker: Casey, Gordon Brown
Portrait of Vice Admiral of the Japanese Imperial Navy of the Marine Section, Tomoshiga Samejima.ART94052