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Boxing match, Wewak Point
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Wewak Point Stadium on a Saturday night after the surrender, featuring one of the recreational activities provided for the troops after the Japanese surrender. The Aitape-Wewak campaign, fought in New...ART25508
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Brigadier David Whitehead
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2 Australian Imperial Force; NX376 Brigadier David Adie Whitehead, CBE, DSO and Bar, MC, MID (twice), Commanding 26 Bde; North AfricaART31775
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Counting confiscated yen - Repatriation Centre, Senzaki
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Money confiscated from Koreans is counted by Japanese officials - Koreans who try to get into Japan often have large amounts of yen and authorities are mystified as to how and where it is acquired.ART26737
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Cutting up midget submarines, Kure
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Kure Naval dockyards. These submarines were situated at the end of a dock full of ships, midget submarines and scrap iron. Japanese under British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF) control are busy...ART26379
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Hiroshima
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The centre of the atomic disturbance. The building on the right with the dome was the aiming point for the bomb.ART26374
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Hiroshima
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A view of the epicentre of Hiroshima following the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. People are walking through the debris of broken rubble, with some partially destroyed buildings still standing. The Hi...ART26539
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Hiroshima snow
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A view of the bombed ruins of the city of Hiroshima during snow storm. Pictured in the foreground is a stone lantern, rubble, and some tree branches. On the other side of a body of water is the bomb ...ART26713
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Jemadar Chint Singh
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Portrait depicting 13887 Jemadar Chint Singh, 2/12 Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army. The last surviving member of Indian prisoner-of-war in Wewak area. Taken prisoner in Singapore in 1942, he was ...ART25268
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Private Kenna winning the V.C.
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Unfinished oil painting of the action that resulted in Private Edward (Ted) Kenna receiving the Victoria Cross. On 15 May 1945, Kenna was involved in an action near Wewak, New Guinea, during which he ...ART26188
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Rebuilding Hiroshima
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This sketch was made almost on the first anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Japanese civilians are clearing away rubble to make a site for another shanty.ART26220
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Regatta, Dallman Harbour, Wewak
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6th Australian Division troops at Wewak holding a regatta on 11th November, 1945. Yatching was taken up as a post-war recreation. The boat building was done by the boys themselves.ART26184
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Repatriation centre, Senzaki, a very disappointed Korean
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Koreans are only allowed to retain 1000 yen before being sent back to their homeland. This one has just been relieved of a large sum and is a little upset. A New Zealand soldier gently pushes him on h...ART26738
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Repatriation centre, Senzaki - Innoculating a child
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A Korean child is passing through the medical line-up prior to being returned to Korea. The child is just starting to cry after having five injections in quick succession. The Repatriation Centre at S...ART26732
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Repatriation centre, Ujina, inoculating Okinawan child
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This Japanese repatriation centre at Ujina - near Hiroshima - is under the control of British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) and supervised by 65th Australian Infantry Battalion. The sketch was ...ART26740