CORPORALS SASKI AND MATSUKAWA OF THE JAPANESE KENPEITAI BEING TRANSPORTED FROM LIROENG TO BEO FOR ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Talaud Islands
Accession Number 119819
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Talaud Islands
Date made 14 October 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

CORPORALS SASKI AND MATSUKAWA OF THE JAPANESE KENPEITAI BEING TRANSPORTED FROM LIROENG TO BEO FOR FURTHER QUESTIONING. 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.