BALMAIN, NSW. 1946-03-02. THE DAIKAI MARU OSAKA, JAPANESE REPATRIATION SHIP, THE FIRST JAPANESE ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Balmain
Accession Number 126101
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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BALMAIN, NSW. 1946-03-02. THE DAIKAI MARU OSAKA, JAPANESE REPATRIATION SHIP, THE FIRST JAPANESE MERCHANT SHIP TO ENTER SYDNEY HARBOUR SINCE AUSTRALIA WENT TO WAR WITH JAPAN, BEFORE BERTHING AT NO. 1 WHARF, WHERE SHE IS TO TAKE ON NEARLY 3,000 JAPANESE POWS AND INTERNEES FOR REPATRIATION TO JAPAN.