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Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. After arriving by air at Mingaladon airfield, two senior officers of the Imperial Japanese Army (centre) are escorted by British Army and RAF officers to a special tent (not in view) where they will surrender local Japanese forces in a formal signing ceremony. The Japanese officer (right) is Lieutenant General Tokaza Numata, Chief of Staff of the Japanese South-East Asia Command. The two officers, who are both carrying samurai swords in hilts, are among a party of Japanese envoys who have been flown to the airfield in two Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' transport aircraft (not in view). A large crowd of British and Indian servicemen, some of them bare-chested, stands and watches in the background, while an officer crouches on the ground (left) to photograph the Japanese officers with his camera. (Donor W. Mulford) (Original print held in AWM Archive Store)
Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. Carrying a samurai sword , an officer of the Imperial Japanese Army steps down from the side door of a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' transport aircraft which has just l
Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. Carrying a samurai sword, Lieutenant General Tokaza Numata (centre, left), Chief of Staff of the Japanese South-East Asia Command, is escorted through a group of British Ar
Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. After arriving by air at Mingaladon airfield, a party of Japanese envoys (centre, right) heads towards a special tent where they will surrender local Japanese forces in a f
Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. At Mingaladon airfield, three British officers (centre) await the arrival of two Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' transport aircraft (not in view) which are carrying Japan
Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. A group of Japanese and British servicemen stands beside a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' transport aircraft which has just landed at Mingaladon airfield. The men are (l
Rangoon, Burma, c. 1945-08. A Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-57 'Topsy' transport aircraft comes to a stop on the runway after landing at Mingaladon airfield. A British Army soldier (left) and several RAF ser
