Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. After arriving by air at Mingaladon airfield, two senior officers of ...

Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. After arriving by air at Mingaladon airfield, two senior officers of the Imperial Japanese Army (centre) are escorted by British Army and RAF officers to a special tent (not in view) where they will surrender local Japanese forces in a formal signing ceremony. The Japanese officer (right) is Lieutenant General Tokaza Numata, Chief of Staff of the Japanese South-East Asia Command. The two officers, who are both carrying samurai swords in hilts, are among a party of Japanese envoys who have been flown to the airfield in two Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' transport aircraft (not in view). A large crowd of British and Indian servicemen, some of them bare-chested, stands and watches in the background, while an officer crouches on the ground (left) to photograph the Japanese officers with his camera. (Donor W. Mulford) (Original print held in AWM Archive Store)