Portrait of an unidentified Australian Army lieutenant (right) with a Lieutenant Colonel Woo ...

Portrait of an unidentified Australian Army lieutenant (right) with a Lieutenant Colonel Woo Yien, commander of the Nationalist Chinese Army in New Britain, at a Japanese prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. The Australian is a member of a postwar recovery party which has just liberated the Chinese soldiers from the Japanese. The Chinese officer is wearing sunglasses and full military uniform. Behind the men is a covered platform on which the Japanese used to review the Chinese POWs lined up on the camp's parade ground. The platform is built of bamboo with a set of sturdy bamboo steps leading up to it. With the Japanese surrender, the Chinese POWs have erected on the platform a portrait of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, together with Nationalist Chinese flags and a pennant covered in Chinese characters. Strung in a line above the stage are drawings representing a row of Chinese lanterns.