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BRUTAL Executions Of Nurses Of Bangka Island.WW2.
The BRUTAL Executions Of The Nurses Of Bangka Island
18 Mar 2022 TheUntoldPast
During the Second World War, there were a huge number of war crimes and atrocities committed by different armies. Some of the most shocking and brutal atrocities were committed by the Japanese Army, and the accounts of these are truly harrowing.
Thousands of Prisoners of War were brutally slaughtered in their captivity, but there was one horrific war crime in which over 20 Australian nurses were executed en-mass on a beach. The nurses were part of hundreds who fled Singapore onboard the ship the Vyner Brooke.
The Vyner Brooke was attacked by the Japanese Air Force who sunk the ship, but after boarding the lifeboats over 20 Australian nurses washed up on Bangka Island, which was controlled by the Japanese. A number of other soldiers and civilians also washed up on the beach, but when approached by the Japanese Army, they sorted the men out into two groups.
They then took the men further up the beach and then shot dozens of them in the sea in a brutal massacre and slaughter. But when they returned, they sought to also massacre the nurses who had set up a Red Cross station and were treating those who washed up on the beach.
The nurses were all told to walk into the sea, and then they were machine gunned down and massacred by the Japanese Army.
There was only one survivor of the execution of the nurses, Vivian Bullwinkle who then went on to tell the Tokyo War Crimes Trial about the horrific atrocity. On the beach on Bangka Island, over 20 nurses had been killed and dozens of men had also been killed.
No-one was ever punished or sentenced for the execution of the survivors of the Vyner Brooke.
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