JAPANESE DEAD AT SANANANDA
Count Reaches 2952 N.Z.P.A.—Special Australian Correspondent (Rcc. 6 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 28. The total number of Japanese killed 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 other sections of the Buna-Gona beach-head. Tlie total number of prisoners taken in Hie Sanananda area, including Korean coolies, was 120. One ol tlie last Japanese casualties at Sanananda was a colonel who tried (o shoot aii Australian artillery brigadier some days alter 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 that area.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22492, 29 January 1943, Page 5
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134JAPANESE DEAD AT SANANANDA Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22492, 29 January 1943, Page 5
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