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Admiral Samejima and party going to Sarnauso Island as PW's
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Vice-Admiral Baron Tomoshige Samejima, Commander-in-chief, Japanese Navy, Northern Solomons, travelling on one of the remaining remnants of Japanese sea power from Kahili to Sarnauso Island in the Fau...ART25244
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A Japanese sergeant
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Depicts a portrait of a Japanese Sergeant of the Imperial Japanese Army.ART28535.023
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A two star private
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A sketch of a typical two star private of the Imperial Japanese Army. Privates have either one, two or three stars on their jacket lapels and a Lance Corporal has a plain gold star.ART28535.022
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Beware...It may be a flak trap
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Maker: Unknown [S.L. : AIR FORCE, N.D.]
Australian propaganda posters during the Second World War were used to instil anti-Japanese attitudes. Using racial stereotypes and derogatory humour the posters harboured fear and caution amongst Aus...ARTV03291
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Broken Jap roller at Boram Strip
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Pencil sketch of a destroyed Japanese roller at Boram Strip. In the background are some Australian bulldozers.ART28714
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BUT WE'VE GOT TO BEAT THE JAP FIRST. KEEP ON SAVING
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Maker: Unknown Belfast Ulster Savings Committee
British Second World War poster encouraging war savings. Depicts the central figure of a menacing Japanese soldier standing before the future plans for education; health etc.ARTV00054
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Captain Tukutchi
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Captain Tukutchi, Japanese prisoner of war.ART29848
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Captured Japanese camp
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A captured Japanese camp position at Wewak Heights, New Guinea is depicted. On the verso there are sketches of an island and a landscape.ART29869
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Colonel Jatsueichi Kaida
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Colonel Jatsueichi Kaida, Commander of the Japanese forces who signed the first surrender towards the end of the Second World War.ART26607
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Dead Japanese on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the corpses of two unidentified Japanese soldiers on Kamiri airstrip.ART22305
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Destroyed Government Offices and Japanese A.A Defence - Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Destroyed government offices and Japanese defences, Madang, New Guinea.ART22707
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Destroyed Japanese lorries, Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Two Japanese lorries are seen overturned into Merio River, Madang, Papua New Guinea. The bridge was constructed by the Japanese.ART22261
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Diagrammatic layout of the basic weapons used by a Japanese Infantry Regiment
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry 6 Australian Army Topographical Survey Company (AIF)
Australian Army instructional poster showing a diagrammatic layout of the basic weapons used by a Japanese Infantry Regiment. It was produced by the GSI First Australian Army Unit, designed by Ernest ...AWM2018.254.18
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Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Dick Ashton, most likely official war artist with the Army Military History Section, Julian Richard Ashton, sketches a Japanese prisoner of war undertaking batman duties.ART28711
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Don't fight... Don't work...don't lend! Thankyou!
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Maker: Graham, Frank C
A poster featuring a grinning Japanese officer, in uniform holding a cigarette. Behind him,on the left, is a Japanese flag. The poster was one of a number of anti-Japanese propoganda posters produced ...ARTV00052
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First Lieutenant Akutagawa Mitsuya
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Portrait of 1st Lieutenant Akutagawa Mitsuya, Commandant of Kempeitai (Military Police) at Keningau, north Borneo.ART22991
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First Lieutenant Genzo Watanabe
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a portrait, in right profile, of First Lieutenant Genzo Watanabe, a Japanese staff officer at the prisoner of war compound in Ranau, Borneo during the Second World War.ART22987
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Four types of Japanese
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Sketches of four privates of the Imperial Japanese Army. These sketches were done to illustrate the different types that make up the Japanese Forces.ART28535.024
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General Kanda's house, Buin
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Lieutenant-General Masatane Kanda, commanded 17th Japanese Army and was Officer-in-Charge of all Japanese Forces on Bougainville and adjacant islands.ART25237
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Give him the arms to smash the Japs
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Maker: Unknown General Motors Holden SEF Silkscreen
Australian propaganda posters during the Second World War (WWII) were used to instil anti-Japanese attitudes. Using racial stereotypes and derogatory humour the posters harboured fear and caution amon...ARTV00156
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Hauling dead Japanese from foxholes
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts the 2/3 Australian Independent Company removing dead Japanese from Foxholes, Timbered Knoll, New Guinea.ART22558
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Home front fires are enemy victories
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Maker: Schlaikjer, Jes Wilhelm [WASHINGTON] : U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1944
United States propaganda posters during the Second World War were used to instil anti-Japanese attitudes. This poster depicts a Japanese soldier's face looming over an urban fire. There was a concerte...ARTV00740
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Japanese ack ack defences, Penfoei
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a Japanese Anti-Aircraft gun, Penfoei, Timor.ART26140
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Japanese anti-aircraft gun
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
View of Japanese anti-aircraft gun in gun position, Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART22691
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Japanese anti-aircraft gun, Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Japanese anti aircraft gun, Madang, New Guinea.ART22710
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Japanese Community Grave
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the burial site of a Japanese soldier in the foreground. A plank of wood has been stuck into the dirt mound, marking the site, and has Japanese text written on it. In the background ...ART22705
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Japanese going home
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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
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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
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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 interpreter (Miro Fujita)
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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 positions, Wewak
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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 Surrender"
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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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Lieutenant General Baba Masao
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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
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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
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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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Looking from Kokakoc towards Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen
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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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Nature Morte
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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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POW compound, Torokina
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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
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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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recto: Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.09...; verso: Japanese infantry weapons
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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]
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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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Rifleman's kill
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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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Same, Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A scene in the town of Same, in Portuguese Timor which figured considerably in the exploits of the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies during their guerilla campaign in Timor during the J...ART26326
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Suicide by hanging (Colonel Aikyo)
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the corpse of Colonel Aikyo, Commander of Japanese Forces in the north, a suspected war criminal, who committed suicide by hanging in camp.ART22999
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Takei 1945
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Japanese soldier prisoner of war identified as 'Takei'. The work includes an inscription in Japanese characters, suggesting the subject himself did the writing.ART28709
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Tavoy school
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
An imposing concrete building, formerly the main school of the area which was taken over by the Japanese Army and used as the main prisoner of war camp in the area, to house Australian and Allied pris...ART28535.014
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The new disorder
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Maker: Mahony, Will
Designed to be published in a daily newspaper, this drawing depicts General Tojo of the Imperial Japanese Army looking on while Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill engage in a brawl. In ...ART95086
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Three Japanese prisoners being brought into battalion headquarters, Babiang
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele depicts three Japanese prisoners being brought into the battalion headquarters of the 2/10th Australian Cavalry Commando Squadron at Babiang, New Guinea.ART26761
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Time mine
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Maker: Mahony, Will
Designed to be published in a daily newspaper, this drawing depicts a sea mine representing Japan, floating in the Pacific Ocean. Rays are visible behind the mine, so that the image is similar to the ...ART95084
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Trophies
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A collection of items picked up in captured Japanese camps. At the top on the left is the badge of rank of a Sergeant Major. The two little packets alongside contain formalin. A range of bottles conta...ART25520
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Two dead Japanese
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work portrays two dead Japanese soldiers in Borneo. One soldier is lying face down and the soldier next to him is face up.ART22450
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Two dead Japanese in foxhole, Timbered Knoll
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Two unidentified Japanese soldiers, drawn where they fell, Bobdubi, New Guinea.ART22507
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Ye Burma
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the dirty dilapidated huts as temporary accommodation for Australian and Allied prisoners of war, captured at Singapore, during their move from Tavoy to work in the Japanese railway project. Ap...ART28535.028