JAPANESE ENVOYS ARRIVING AT MINGLOADON AIRSTRIP, RANGOON, BURMA Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 5201 11 SOURCE: (LR-105 SEAC-BRITISH) DC FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 605° ea, Silent 201 JAPANESE ENVOYS ARRIVING AT MINGLOADON AIRSTRIP Rangoon, Burma - 26 August 1945 VS, two Japanese planes bearing the Japanese Envoys taxi to position and stop. VS, Japanese Envoys led by Lt Gen Tazako Numate, Chief of Staff; Rear Admiral Kaigye Chudo, Dep Chief of Staff; Lt Col Morio Tomura, Staff Officer, and several assistants get out of plane and salute British Maj Gen W S Symes. The group walks across field filled with British soldiers and enters reception tent. VS, British troops massed along field and path of the Japanese party. VS, Japanese pilots alongside plane. VS, Japanese party getting into trucks and driving to British Govt House. VS, party enter Govt House. LS, Japanese planes fly over airstrip with Spitfire escort. Interiors, Correspondents typing stories in Govt House. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities