JAPANESE LOSSES
IN THE SANANANDA AREA VERY SMALL RATIO OF PRISONERS , TOMMY-GUNNER PREVENTS ATTEMPTED MURDER. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. The total number of Japanese killed counted in the Sanananda area has reached 2.952, with an estimated additional thousand dead from tropical diseases. These figures do not include those buried by the Japanese, nor enemy losses in other sections of the Buna-Gona beachhead. The total number of prisoners taken in the Sanananda area, including Korean coolies, was 120. One of the last Japanese casualties at Sanananda was a colonel who tried to shoot an Australian artillery brigadier some days after fighting had ceased. A tommy-gunner, who was accompanying the brigadier, saw the Japanese drawing his automatic. A burst from a tommy-gun killed the Japanese, who proved to be one of the highest-rank-ing officers encountered in the area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1943, Page 4
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