page_title: Cape Wom
hierarchical_section_title: Cape Wom
caption_attribution_description: AWM Caption: Papua New Guinea: New Guinea, Cape Wom. Signing of surrender documents by Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Hatazo Adachi, Commander of the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea. After signing the unconditional surrender, Lt Gen Adachi is ordered to hand in his sword by the General Officer Commanding, 6th Division, Major General H. C. H. Robertson, at Wom Airstrip, New Guinea, and does so. NX9159 Major Douglas S Burrows OBE, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG) 6th Division, stands at attention at rear.
context_page_description: Cape Wom is a cape near Wewak, Papua New Guinea, pointing into the Dogreto Bay of the Bismarck Sea.
  It was the location of the unconditional surrender by Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, Commander of the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea on September 13, 1945. A Cape Wom Memorial Park with the Surrender Memorial is located at the spot.
context_section_description: Cape Wom is a cape (or small peninsula) near Wewak, Papua New Guinea, pointing into the Dogreto Bay of the Bismarck Sea.
  It was the location of the unconditional surrender by Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Hatazo Adachi, Commander of the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea on September 13, 1945. A Cape Wom Memorial Park with the Surrender Memorial is located at the spot.
caption: Japanese surrender at Cape Wom
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)"}