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About 17 prisoners of war were...

history · 14 January 1944 · 81 years ago

About 17 prisoners of war were beheaded by men of 81st Naval Garrison Unit of the Japanese Navy at Rabaul, New Britain as reprisal for American air raids on the town. 

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