IJA and NLF with US kit?

[DaveR]

Starting a thread to avoid hijacking another. Photo's of Japanese serviceman in using items of US kit!

[arisakadogs]

Looks like they are in US custody?

[DaveR]

Looks like they are in US custody?

Exactly. I think they are NLF gathered up in the Pacific. I posted the second photo to give context.

[adachi]

Japanese Naval Infantry led by Lt. Shiraisha surrendering around Kogachi, Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, September 3, 1945. Here you can see some US trousers as well as a US pack. Some of the surrender was caught on film by Marine Combat photographer B. S. Goldberg of Augusta, Ga. However I'm yet to find the complete footage. A few seconds of it appears towards the end of the documentary "Japan's War in Color (2003)".