Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, commander of the Japanese XVIII Army, hands his sword to Major General HCH Robertson, General Officer Commanding 6th Division, on 13 September 1945. This was part of the surrender ceremony at Cape Wom, near Wewak. Adachi would commit suicide in a prisoner of war camp at Rabaul almost exactly two years later, after expressing shame at the loss of more than 100,000 men of his army since 1942. AWM 096225
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