The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two Japanese aircraft at Labuan Airstrip. The Mitsubishi Ki.21 heavy bomber aircraft (Allied code name 'Sally') (left) has been painted white with a green surrender cross, and was used to transport Japanese prisoners for trial between Borneo and Labuan. This aircraft was probably the Sally which was flown to Australia in February 1946, having been nicknamed 'Tokyo Rose'. The Tachikawa Ki.54 transport aircraft (Allied code name 'Hickory') (right) retains its original campouflage, but has had its hinomoru marking - the Japanese red roundel - over-painted with a white surrender cross. It has also had white surrender crosses applied to its wings, outboard of the hinomaru. The Hickory was used to fly Lieutenant General Masao Baba, Commander of the Japanese 37th Army and Supreme Commander of the Japanese Forces in Borneo to surrender at Labuan. The furselage of the Hickory is preserved in the collection of the AWM.
All-metal fuselage remains of a Tachikawa Ki-54c 'Hickory' light transport, training and general purpose aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. The wings, engines and left hand side crew e
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH BORNEO. 1945-09-10. THE JAPANESE AIRCRAFT, A TACHIKAWA KI-54C ARMY TYPE 1 ADVANCED TRAINER, OPERATIONS TRAINER AND TRANSPORT, ALLIED CODE NAME HICKORY, WHICH BROUGHT THE JAPANESE
Labuan Island, Borneo. 1945. Side view of a Japanese Tachikawa KI-54 Army Type 1 twin engined transport aircraft, allied code name `Hickory' on the airfield. (Donor F. Cassidy)
LABUAN ISLAND, NORTH BORNEO. 1945-09-10. RAAF SERVICE POLICE AND AIF PROVOSTS HAD DIFFICULTY IN KEEPING THE DENSE CROWD OF SPECTATORS BACK FROM THE JAPANESE AIRCRAFT, A TACHIKAWA KI-54C, ARMY TYPE 1 A
The Japanese surrender aircraft, a Tachikawa KI-53C (Hickory), seen here on Labuan Isle. Lieutenant General Masao Baba, Commander of the Japanese 37th Army and Supreme Commander of Japanese Forces in
Side view of a camouflaged Japanese Tachikawa Ki-54c transport aircraft, known to the Allies as a "Hickory", parked on the airfield. This aircraft displayed the agreed surrender markings of a large cr
Portrait of the Japanese aircrew near their Tachikawa Ki-54c (Hickory) aircraft that conveyed Lieutenant General Masao Baba, Supreme Commander of Japanese Forces in Borneo and Commander of the 37th Ja
