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Accession Number | 128897 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white |
Physical description | Black & white |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
ETA JIMA, JAPAN. MEMENTOS OF THE JAPANESE MIDGET SUBMARINE RAID ON SYDNEY HARBOUR ON 1942-05-31, ...
Description
ETA JIMA, JAPAN. MEMENTOS OF THE JAPANESE MIDGET SUBMARINE RAID ON SYDNEY HARBOUR ON 1942-05-31, ON DISPLAY IN THE REFERENCE HALL, MARINE SELF-DEFENCE ESTABLISHMENT. ALSO ON DISPLAY IS A PHOTOCOPY OF THE BODY BELT WORN BY LIEUTENANT KEIU MATSUO, COMMANDER OF MIDGET SUBMARINE FROM THE CARRIER SUBMARINE I-22, WHO LOST HIS LIFE IN THE SYDNEY HARBOUR RAID. THE ORIGINAL BELT IS IN THE COLLECTION OF OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL. (DONOR: H. CLARKE).
Curator's note: the senninbari belt was returned to Mrs Matsue Matsuo, Keiu Matsuo's mother, when she visited the Australian War Memorial on 1 May 1968.