AT SEA OFF RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1945-09-06. THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS GLORY, SEEN FROM THE BOW OF ...

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Accession Number 095812
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Rice, Robert Edwin
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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AT SEA OFF RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1945-09-06. THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS GLORY, SEEN FROM THE BOW OF HMS AMETHYST, AFTER THE SURRENDER CEREMONY. THE SURRENDER OF ALL JAPANESE FORCES IN NEW GUINEA, NEW BRITAIN AND THE SOLOMONS, BY GENERAL H. IMAMURA, COMMANDER EIGHTH AREA ARMY, AND VICE ADMIRAL J. KUSAKA, COMMANDER SOUTH EAST AREA FLEET, WAS ACCEPTED BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL V.A.H. STURDEE, GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING FIRST ARMY.