BALIKPAPAN AREA, BORNEO. 1945-09-03. A CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT JAPANESE HEADQUARTERS IN THE UPPER ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Balikpapan Area
Accession Number 115026
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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BALIKPAPAN AREA, BORNEO. 1945-09-03. A CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT JAPANESE HEADQUARTERS IN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE SEMOI RIVER BETWEEN CAPTAIN F. A. JACOBSEN, GENERAL STAFF OFFICER 3, HQ 7TH DIVISION AND REAR ADMIRAL NOMEJA, IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY AND HIS STAFF OFFICERS. THE OBJECT OF THE CONFERENCE WAS TO CONTACT THE JAPANESE FORCE COMMANDER TO ARRANGE ASSEMBLY AREAS AND METHODS OF SURRENDER OF ALL FORCES IN THE BALIKPAPAN AREA. THE CONFERENCE PARTY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A PATROL FROM 2/1ST PIONEER BATTALION. SHOWN, LIEUTENANT D. B. GRIGGS DRAWING A MAP OF THE AREA WHERE HIS PATROL ENCOUNTERED A JAPANESE AMBUSH IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER WHETHER ANY OF THE JAPANESE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE COULD TELL HIM THE STRENGTH OF THE PARTY.