ASKED TO BE KILLED
JAPANESE PILOT (Special Australian Correspondent.) (11 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 2. A Japanese fighter pilot taken prisoner by the crew of an Allied bomber asked his captors to kill him. The Allied fliers were marooned on an island in the Coral Sea when their plane crashed three miles offshore. 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 <*peak 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 friendlv natives took them, together with their Japanese captive, in canoes back to the mainland.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20825, 2 July 1942, Page 3
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