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Scaling a wall on VJ Day in Brisbane, 1945

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  • BobMeade said:
    Looks like the sheila on the balcony did not want her photograph taken with the bloke next to her. VP or VJ?? The title of the photograph at the Persistent URL is: "Soldiers scaling a wall on VJ Day in Brisbane, 1945" VJ Day meaning Victory over Japan Day. There is a good backgrounder at the Australian War Memorial about the VJ versus VP issue here: www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/vp_day.asp
  • funky_abstract said:
    What a scene!
  • State Library of Queensland said:
    lifeasdaddy - thanks for your comment and the link to background information about the VJ versus VP issue.
  • bancrows said:
    Most definitely it was VJ Day. Never called anything else for decades, until the unfortunate intervention of political correctness and the fashion for rewriting history. . Navy "soldiers"? When did "sailor" become" unacceptable to the loony left?
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Queensland Government Treasury Buildings, Queen Street, Brisbane, ca.1907

  • Aussie~mobs said:
    Henry Mobsby, Qld Govt photographer, artist and designer worked for the Intelligence and Tourist Bureau. He and Fred Wills took the first moving pictures in Queensland.
  • Jim Griffin said:
    A great old postcard, Kaye.

British Library digitised image from page 229 of "Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto. A collection of historical sketches of the old town of York from 1792 until 1833 (till 1837) and of Toronto from 1834 to 1893 (to 1914) . Also ... engravings ... Published

  • Lú_ said:
    Queen near Givens:http://lost-toronto.blogspot.ca/2012/04/blue-bell-tavern.html