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Tachikawa
Ki-54C |
Operated by the
10th Dokuritsu Hikodan Shireibu,
10/09/1945 Flown in for a Surrender Ceremony by
Lieutenant General
Masao Baba at Labuan to
Major General Sir George Frederick Wootten,
Lieutenant General Baba was Supreme Commander of Japanese Forces
in Borneo and commanded the 37th Japanese Army. He formally
surrendered to Allied forces during a ceremony at the
Headquarters of 9th Division on Labuan Island. General Baba was
subsequently found guilty of war crimes in relation to the Sandakan
Death Marches,
sentenced to death and hanged at Rabaul on 7 August 1947,
??/04/1946 Shipped from Borneo to RAAF Laverton,
??/??/1946 To Australian War Memorial (Stored at RAAF Base
Fairbairn),
1965 Fuselage subsequently used at
RAAF Fairbairn Kindergarten in the children's playground,
??/01/1980
The Hickory fuselage was recovered from the Fairbairn
Kindergarten playground for the RAAF Museum,
Point Cook VIC,
by W/O Bob Gould, and stored for the
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT,
Aircraft fuselage noted in storage at Point Cook in 82/83,
??/01/2013 Fuselage trucked from Pt. Cook to Canberra and
handed back to the AWM,
Fuselage is currently in
storage within the
AWM Mitchell Annexe.
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