Four Jap Soldiers Come Out
p. 20 · Read in the full issue
of NG Jungle
THOSE who ridiculed the idea that Jap servicemen from World War II were still hiding in the interior of New Guinea were confounded in February, when four Jap airmen were found in Dutch New Guinea, arrested near Hollandia, and were put aboard the Jap War Graves ship in Wewak for return to Japan.
They said a party of about 40 arrived in R.abaul in 1943, and were sent to Wewak, to go thence to Hollandia. American attacks dis located their transport, and 28 were drowned when they were trying to cross rivers on logs. Twelve reached Vanimo (near the border); then they took to jungle trails: eight died of disease: the remaining four had lived among the Dutch NG natives for ten years, making occasional sneak visits to Hollandia to see if the Jap navy had yet arrived there.
The survivors said there were other parties of Japs living with the natives, deeper in the jungle.