Surrender of Bougainville. Japanese officers in barge approaches an Australian Navy corvette. Neg 8/916

Surrender of Bougainville. Two Japanese officers on board an Australian Navy corvette. Neg 8/917

Surrender of Bougainville. Japanese surrender party. Neg 8/919 In the background is a sailor with his revolver in hand.

Surrender of Bougainville. Australian Lieutenant Colonel explaining surrender details to Japanese officers. Neg 8/920

Surrender of Bougainville. Japanese surrender party under armed guard on a Naval ship. Neg 8/923

Surrender of Bougainville. Japanese surrender party departing in their barge. Neg 8/925

Local natives loading Japanese surrender pamphlets into a RAAF Beaufort. Bougainville. Neg 8/879

Air Vice Marshal LM Isitt signing the Japanese surrender treaty document on board the US Navy battleship USS Missouri. Tokyo Bay. Standing behind microphone stand at left is General Douglas MacArthur.

Image from the MW Brough personal album collection. "Beaufort bomber used to advise Japanese of surrender". RAAF Beaufort A9-712, with Japanese characters painted under its wings indicating the Japanese surrender. Characters read "Japan surrenders".

Japanese formal surrender of Bougainville at Torokina. Lieutenant General Kanda, seated at left and Vice Admiral Samejima, seated at right, waiting to sign the surrender documents. Allied names. L-R: Seated; Brigadier AR Garrett (Australian General Staff), Lieutenant General SG Savige (General Officer Commanding), Brigadier S Legge (Australian General Staff). Standing; Lieutenant J Jenkins (Australian Interpreter), Air Commodore GN Roberts (RNZAF), Group Captain DR Chapman (RAAF), Lieutenant Commander AE Fowler (Royal Australian Navy), Colonel JP Coursey (United States Marine Corps).

News of surrender painted in Japanese characters on the underside of the wings of RAAF Beaufort A9-712. Piva, Bougainville. Japanese characters read "Japan surrenders". L-R: Flight Sergeant EV Muldrock (Palmerston North), Warrant Officer R Carter (Christchurch), Leading Aircraftman JR Milgate (Newcastle New South Wales), Pilot Officer RB Lamb (Christchurch), Leading Aircraftman RP Hughes (New South Wales), Leading Aircraftman F Johansson (Victoria, Australia), Flight Sergeant RB Booth (Hamilton), Leading Aircraftman ES Shepherd (Gisborne), Flight Sergeant TE Wipiti (New Plymouth).

Japanese formal surrender of Rabaul on board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS GLORY off Rabaul. Japanese surrender party signing surrender documents.

Surrender of Bougainville; Japanese surrender party departing in their barge.

Image from the GN Roberts personal collection. "Lieutenant General V. A. H. Sturdee, Commander Australian First Army takes the surrender of the Japanese forces in the Bismarck Archipelago on the flight deck of HMS Glory, anchored in Rabaul Roads - September 1945. New Zealand was represented by Air Commodore G. N. Roberts CBE, AFC, LofM (US) Commander of the New Zealand Air Task Force in the South Pacific. General Imamura signing the surrender document".

Japanese formal surrender of Bougainville at Torokina. New Zealand, Australian and American official party witnessing the signing of the surrender documents. Surrendered Japanese swords are on table. L-R: Seated; Brigadier AR Garrett (Australian General Staff), Lieutenant General SG Savige (General Officer Commanding), Brigadier S Legge (Australian General Staff). Standing: Lieutenant J Jenkins (Australian Interpreter), Air Commodore GN Roberts (RNZAF), Group Captain DR Chapman (RAAF), Lieutenant Commander AE Fowler (Royal Australian Navy), Colonel JP Coursey (US Marine Corps).