KILLED BY PATROL
Japanese Women Soldiers ;By Telegraph.—Press ,Assn.— Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 18. Two young Japanese women, dressed in military uniform, have been killed in a clash between American and Japanese patrols in Dutch New Guinea. The women were members of an enemy combat party encountered near the Allied-held Hollandia airfield. The American soldiers said that till they examined the Japanese casualties, they did not realize that women were among the patrol. The survivors of the enemy party were scattered by the Americans’ fire. It is how believed that they may have included other Japanese girls.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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99KILLED BY PATROL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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