TAKEN PRISONER
TWO JAPANESE AIRMEN. FOUND ON ISLAND NORTH OF AUSTRALIA. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Two Japanese* airmen have been taken prisoner from an island north of Australia. They were members of the crew of a float-plane shot down in the Arafura Sea. A third member of the crew died. The Japanese airmen spent several days on a rubber raft before they drifted ashore. Their plane was shot down on May 11 by a Beaufighter, which was protecting a small Allied convoy. .
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430531.2.62
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
89TAKEN PRISONER Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in