TALAUD ISLANDS, DUTCH EAST INDIES, 1945-10-15. TALAUD FORCE WAS RAISED TO TAKE PROCLAMATIONS OF ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Talaud Islands
Accession Number 119832
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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TALAUD ISLANDS, DUTCH EAST INDIES, 1945-10-15. TALAUD FORCE WAS RAISED TO TAKE PROCLAMATIONS OF FREEDOM TO NATIVE PEOPLES, SUPERVISE THE ROUNDING UP OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AND INVESTIGATE GENERAL CONDITIONS AFTER JAPANESE SURRENDER. HMAS BOWEN ACCOMPANIED THE FORCE. AT BEO, KARAKELLANG ISLAND, JAPANESE PRISONERS PARADE ON THE BEACH TO HEAR GENERAL BLAMEY'S PROCLAMATION TO LIBERATED PEOPLES. ON THE LEFT OF THE FRONT ROW ARE COLONEL SHIGE KODA, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE TALAUD GARRISON, MAJOR TAMURA, LIEUTENANT SHIGEDA AND IN THE SECOND ROW, CAPTAIN TAKAHASHI. (PHOTOGRAPHER SERGEANT P. A. DIMOND)