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American soldiers liberate sikh troops in pacific Indian Soldiers of the Sikh troops liberated when General Douglas MacArthur's forces invaded the Admiralty Islands get acquanted with American soldiers at an Allied base in New Guinea. The indian soldiers, captured enemy into service as laborers in the Admialties.

' At Surrender Ceremony. The United Kingdom's delegate to Japan's formal surrender, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, British Pacific Fleet Commander, enters the verandah deck of U.S.S. Missouri. Tokyo Bay was the scene of this ceremony on September 2nd, where Allied and Japanese representatives met on Admiral Halsey's flag-ship. This ceremony marked the official end of struggle that lasted over seven years ...

U.S aircraft carrier, smashed by typhoon in Pacific, repaired at sea. After the end of the U.S.S. Bonnington's was smashed and crumpled by a typhoon in the Pacific on June 5, 1945, she was completely repaired at sea in less than two weeks. The upper photo shows how the aircraft carrier looked after the wind abated; the lower picture shows to result of the work done by aU.S. Pacific Fleet Service Squadron. ...

British seizure of Germans from Japanese liner. The first group of the 21 German captives leaving the Asama Maru for the British warship in the Pacific. NI 1845

Japanese surrender in Timor, 11th September 1945. Japanese Commander, Colonel Kaida Tatsuishi signing the surrender document on board the H.M.A.S. Moresby in the Bay of Koepang.

U.S. Marines attack Japanese base insouth Pacific. A fleet of U.S. Coast Guard landing craft carrying U.S. marines moves into Empress Augusta Bay on the west coast of Bougainvile in the Salomon Islands at dawn of November 1, 1943, to open a new offensive against the Japanese in the South Pacific. The marines fought their way ashore in the face of fire from Japanese strongpoints and established a beachhwad. ...

U.S.Navy PT boats in the Pacific. A U.S. Navy torpedo boat is shown on maneuvers in Slomons, where a flotilla of ..... fast, deadly ships is now on patrol. The U.S. Navy credits PT boats with destroying or damaging 250,000 tons of enemy shipping in the first year America was at war.

U.S. Marine Lieutenant welcomed after three years in Pacific Theater of War. U.S. Marine Lieutenant Clark R. Kaltenbaugh walks into his mother's arms as he arrives at his home in the northeastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania after three years' service in the Pacific Theater of War. He arrived home August 13, 1945, as the world awaited the Japanese reply to U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' message, ...

Dauntless dive on target Douglas 'Dauntless' dive bombers nosing toward their target are veterans of the Pacific campaign, having performed with outstanding success. Replaced to a great extent by the newer Curtiss SB2C 'Helldivers', the redoutable SBD's have set an enviable standard for their successors to live up to. The new planes had several bugs at the start which had to be ironed out before revised ...