JAPANESE ENVOY ARRIVING AT MINGLOADON AIRSTRIP, RANGOON, BURMA Part 1

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I. SIGNAL CORPS ADC 5232 SOURCE: - SEAC B BRITISH) FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 619 ¥ ea Silent DC JAPANESE ENVOY ARRIVING AT MINGLOADON AIRSTRIP 232 Rangoon, Burma - 26 Aug 1945 LS, Japanese planes fly overhead with Spitfire escort. VS, Jap envoy planes land. British soldiers march the crews away. VS, Lt Gen Tazako Numate, Chief of Staff; Rear Adm Kaigye Chudo, Dep Chief of Staff; Lt Col Morio Tomura, staff officer, and several civilian and military assist- ants get off plane and salute British Maj Gen W S Symes. A great number of Australian and British troops watch the Japanese walk across field and enter trucks. VS, convoy of cars and trucks arrives at Government House. VS, Japanese envoys enter conference room and take their places at small table facing a larger one reserved for the British officers. MS, British officials take their places at conference table. The officials stand until Lt Gen F A Browning, Chief of Staff, enters and takes his seat. VS, Lt Gen Numate signs and places his seal on the document. (This is not the actual surrender but a local preliminary agreement.) 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

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities