Numbered wooden tables and benches lined up in the large domed interior of the Japanese ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, Manus, Manus Island, HMAS Tarangau
Accession Number 306741
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Paper (Resin-coated), Silver Gelatin
Physical description Black & white, Paper (Resin-coated), Silver Gelatin
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands, Manus, Manus Island
Date made c 1948
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Numbered wooden tables and benches lined up in the large domed interior of the Japanese prisoner's cafeteria at the RAN War Criminal Compound at an RAN shore base. Work on this RAN base commenced in August 1948. It was commissioned as HMAS Seeadler on 1 January 1950 and recommissioned as HMAS Tarangau on 1 April 1950. The name was transferred from the decommissioned RAN Base at Dreger Harbour, New Guinea. (Navy Historical Collection)