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

Place Asia: Timor, Dili
Accession Number 119648
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. AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER CARRYING AN OWEN GUN STANDS GUARD AS A JAPANESE PRISONER DUMPS AMMUNITION FROM A BARGE OUTSIDE DILI HARBOUR. (PHOTOGRAPHER SERGEANT K. B. DAVIS)