NEW GUINEA. KOKODA. AN OFFICER TALKS WITH ONE OF THE FIRST JAPANESE PRISONERS CAPTURED IN THE ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Trail
Accession Number 013615
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Silk, George
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Kokoda
Date made 19 November 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

NEW GUINEA. KOKODA. AN OFFICER TALKS WITH ONE OF THE FIRST JAPANESE PRISONERS CAPTURED IN THE KOKODA AREA. THE FLAG IS ONE GIVEN AT A FAREWELL PARTY BEFORE THE JAPANESE LEFT FOR ACTIVE SERVICE. THE SIGNATURES ARE THOSE OF FRIENDS WHO ATTENDED THE FAREWELL PARTY. (NEGATIVE BY G. SILK).