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MOROTAI, BORNEO 1945-10-22. HMAS ROCKHAMPTON RETURNED TO MOROTAI BRINGING BACK MOST OF THE AUSTRALIAN HALMAHERA FORCE, A LARGE QUANTITY OF JAPANESE EQUIPMENT AND SEVEN SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS. JAPANESE MARINES, LISTED AS WAR CRIMINALS, LOADING CASES OF JAPANESE INVASION MONEY ONTO A THREE TON TRUCK. OVER THIRTY CASES OF THE PAPER MONEY, TOTALLING 2,400,OOO GUILDERS WAS BROUGHT BACK FROM THE HALMAHERAS. (PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTAIN G. H. NICHOLSON)
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Colour: Black & white
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