1000 Japanese Dead at Sanananda
(Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, Jan. 28. The total number of Japanese killed ..ho have oeen counted in the Sanananda area has reached 2952, with an estimated additional 1000 dead from tropical diseases. These figures do not include those buried by the Japanese, nor enemy losses in the other section 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 the fighting had ceased. A tommy gunner, who was accompanying the brigadier, saw the Japanese drawing his automatic. A burst from the tommy-gun killed the Japanese, who proved to be one of the highest ranking officers encountered in the area.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 24, 29 January 1943, Page 5
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1351000 Japanese Dead at Sanananda Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 24, 29 January 1943, Page 5
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