Out of Jungle After Ten Years
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This photograph, taken by Mr. Walter Barker, of Wewak, shows the four Japanese servicemen who, in February, came out of hiding in the Dutch New Guinea jungle and 10 years after the cessation of the Pacific war, gave themselves up. They were picked up in Wewak by the Jap War Graves Mission ship and taken to Tokio where, on ar rival early in March,
they were literally overwhelmed by Japanese reporters and photographers.
The four servicemen, even after 10 years, were not easily convinced that the war had ended in the defeat and surrender cf Japan.
They are pictured here as they were immediately after landing from a Qantas plane which brought them from Hollandia to Wewak.