??. [Shokun]. [Surrender Leaflet Distributed by Australia to Japanese Troops].

[SURRENDER LEAFLET].

Verlag: [Australian Army] (Circa1943)., 1943

Colour and black and white leaflet, written in Japanese, English and Tok Pisin, 15.3 x 20.5 cm, some occasional marking at edges. Very good. This trilingual propaganda leaflet featuring the Australian Coat of Arms was distributed by the Australian Army likely by air drop to Japanese troops and local villagers in New Guinea in the final months of World War II. The leaflet is aimed at Japanese troops and urges them to surrender to the Allies assuring them they will be treated well. The Japanese text urges the Japanese soldier reading it to carry the leaflet and walk with local villagers to an Allied camp. The English text directly below the Japanese text is clearly aimed at the Allied soldier to whom the Japanese soldier and local villager has met and tells the Allied soldier to be take both the Japanese soldier and the villager to the nearest commanding officer. On the reverse of the Japanese and English text, the Tok Pisin text asks the villager to take any Japanese soldier bearing this message to the Allied Forces. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 178285

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Titel: ??. [Shokun]. [Surrender Leaflet Distributed...
Verlag: [Australian Army] (Circa1943).
Erscheinungsdatum: 1943