Commander of the 18th Japanese Army in New Guinea, Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, with his ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Wewak
Accession Number P00554.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print
Place made New Guinea1: Cape Wom
Date made 13 September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Commander of the 18th Japanese Army in New Guinea, Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, with his Japanese interpreter, Canadian-born Captain Fred Kazuo Iwama, at the table at which he signed the surrender document marking the defeat of the Japanese. (Original is a hand-tinted print, held in the AWM archive store.)