DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR 1945-09-25. IN CONCURRENCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE SURRENDER, JAPANESE ARMS ...

Place Asia: Timor, Dili
Accession Number 119645
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

DILI, PORTUGUESE TIMOR 1945-09-25. IN CONCURRENCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE SURRENDER, JAPANESE ARMS AND AMMUNITION WERE BEING DUMPED IN THE SEA OFF DILI HARBOUR. SOME OF THE AMMUNITION WERE IN BOXES THAT HAD BEEN BADLY DAMAGED BY WHITE ANTS (TERMITES). (PHOTOGRAPHER SERGEANT K. B. DAVIS)