JAPANESE CAPTIVE
IN THE CORAL SEA ASKS ALLIED AIRMEN TO KILL HIM. BUT CALMS DOWN LATER. (Special P. A. Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 2. A Japanese fighter pilot taken prisoner by the crew of an Allied bomber asked his captors to kill him. The Allied airmen were marooned on an island in the Coral Sea when their plane crashed three miles off-shore. The Japanese pilot swam ashore after the crew of the Allied plane had landed. “He was certainly annoyed when he swam ashore,” said an American member of the bomber crew. “He could speak only a few words of English and asked us to kill him. Later he calmed down and told us he had fought in Zeros throughout the Pacific, first in Malaya and then in Java.” The bomber crew came ashore in their collapsible raft and a friendly native took them, together with their Japanese captive, in canoes back to the mainland.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1942, Page 3
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