AMERICAN WOUNDED
BARBAROUSLY MURDERED BY JAPANESE.
ATROCITY IN NEW GEORGIA
(Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 9. Twenty wounded American soldiers were clubbed and bayoneted
and four of them were battered to death by a Japanese guerilla force near Munda airfield, in New Geor-
gia. The wounded Americans were killed as they lay in foxholes.
The story of the atrocity, the release of which was delayed pending official verification, is told by war correspondents in the area. The wounded men were being carried on, stretchers by medical personnel when the party was ambushed. The bearers fought off one attack, and when the Japanese made a second assault the wounded were placed in foxholes for their protection. Finally the greatly superior enemy force drove off the stretcher-bearers and some engineers with whom they had joined. Survivors say that they saw Japanese crouch over the foxholes and club the wounded with their rifle butts. Some were bayoneted. The Japanese then callously dumped the bodies of the Americans and placed their own wounded on the stretchers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1943, Page 3
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