FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Representatives of ANZAC Services plan details of Japanese surrender on Bougainville. CU leaflets telling Japanese in the Solomon Islands that Emperor has surrendered and news of the atomic bomb. Air crew in front of Beaufort bomber with ÒJapan has SurrenderedÓ written in Japanese on the underwing. Local Islanders passing surrender leaflets into plane, air to air flying over jungle, air to air plane in flight over jungle - Sound (August 1945) WWII. RAAF

Official Japanese Envoy party carrying surrender flags escorted by Australians (18 August 1945). Furling Japanese surrender flag, getting into jeep across Nemu (phonetic) river. Australian soldier blindfolding Japanese soldiers. Walking on foot through river. WWII. Armistice