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Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board and some German Marines from the German ship Nurnberg standing on the beach of Fanning Island, after the communications cable had ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. One of the least damaged cable instruments in the Engine Room of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island after German Marines tried to destroy the instruments ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Some of the more delicate instruments in the Engine Room of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island after German Marines tried to destroy them with axes. The ..

Fanning Island. September 1914. The interior of the destroyed Engine Room on Fanning Island. In the background is the destroyed switch board, and in the foreground the destroyed dynamo (a type of ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board and German Marines from the German ship Nurnberg on the wharf on Fanning Island. The Nurnberg (partly obscured in the background) ..

BOUGAINVILLE, 1945-09. JAPANESE POWs FROM NAURU, BUIN, KIETA, BUKA ISLAND AND OTHER PARTS OF BOUGAINVILLE ON A LANDING CRAFT IN THE PURIATA RIVER. THEY ARE BEING LANDED TO BEGIN THE MARCH TO POW ..

GUAM 1945-08-15. JAPANESE POWS BOW THEIR HEADS AS THEY PREPARE TO HEAR THE BROADCAST WORDS OF EMPEROR HIROHITO DESCRIBING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

GUAM 1945-08-15. CRYING UNASHAMEDLY, A JAPANESE POW HAS JUST HEARD A BROADCAST BY EMPEROR HIROHITO ANNOUNCING JAPAN'S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)

Troops cheering the unfurling of the British flag at the German Government Station on the surrender of Nauru. In the foreground (left) is Captain Norrie Officer Commanding (OC) (later Colonel of ..

A gathering of troops, European residents and local people at the unfurling of the British flag outside the German Government Station on the surrender of Nauru. Empty cannon shells are encircling ..

Apiang or Charlotte Island, Kingsmill Group : by the U.S. Ex. Ex., 1841 : Tarawa or Cook Island, Kingsmill Group : by the U.S. Ex. Ex. 1841 / Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy

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