Lot 5834

Description

Australia, WWII 'Cease Resistance' safe conduct passes for surrendering Japanese troops in New Guinea and other documents to New Guinea locals, includes a variety of documents with Japanese, pidgin English and Indonesian text, some featuring images of captured soldiers in camp and various New Guinea natives as well as images of native recognizable symbols, also news booklets with a few multiples and war articles, mostly relating to war in Pacific but some for Europe, also translation of documents targeted at Japanese troops pre-surrender, noted one US Army leaflet 144-J-1 dropped to Japanese soldiers in 1945 that features a giant Soviet soldier greeting a giant American soldier over map featuring Japan and titled in Japanese text, 'Red Army Strikes', with Japanese text message on back indicating that the Soviet and US have defeated Germany and will now throw there combined military might against Japan. Some with heavy edge tears or some loss of paper at edges, otherwise poor - very fine. (approx 35)