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Smoke pours from the Italian motor vessel Romolo after being set on fire and scuttled by its crew after being pursued from Brisbane by the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMAS Manoora and finally ..

Nauru Island, South Pacific. 1945-09-30. Captain Hisayuki Soeda and Lieutenant Commander Kishimoto, senior Japanese Army and Naval officers on Nauru Island, and their team listen to terms of ..

Ocean Island, South Pacific. 1945-10-02. Following the surrender of the Japanese Forces the Island was occupied by members of the 31/51 Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Military Forces, ..

Nauru Island, South Pacific. 1945-09-30. Captain Hisayuki Soeda and Lieutenant Commander Kishimoto, the senior Japanese Army and Naval officers on Nauru Island, signing the Instrument of Surrender ..

Guam. 1945-08-15. Japanese prisoners of war (POW), bow their heads and remove their hats in reverence for Emperor Hirohito, as they stand behind a barbed wire fence of a POW camp, to hear the radio ..

[Melanesian implements] [John Plott]

Fortified retreat of Captain Wilson and his crew at Oroolong, Pelew Island / C.H.S

Femme du groupe des iles Saltikoff / dess. et lith. par Choris, lith. de Langlume

Iles Radak / Choris del

Interieur d'une maison dans les iles Radak / dess. et lith. par Choris

Kadou, habitant des iles Carolines / dess. et lith. par Choris

Labeleloa, chef du groupe des iles Koutousoff Smolensky / dess. et lith. par Choris