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Takenaga incident

Black and white photo of Australian troops, armed with rifles, posing in a relaxed manner in front of a group of Japanese prisoners.
Takenaga's unit after surrendering (back row), with Australian Army soldiers (front row), taken before the Japanese soldiers were flown to Aitape. The third Australian soldier from the left is Lieutenant C. H. Miles.

The Takenaga incident (Japanese: 竹永事件, Hepburn: Takenaga jiken) was a surrender by an Imperial Japanese Army battalion that occurred on 3 May 1945, near the end of the Pacific War. The battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Masaharu Takenaga,[note 1] surrendered to the Australian Army in eastern New Guinea. This was extremely unusual for the Japanese Army, where surrender was seen as highly dishonourable.

  1. ^ Long 1963, "Chapter 14: Maprik and Wewak Taken Archived 2015-02-17 at the Wayback Machine", p. 334.


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