Bangka Island massacre

When

16 Feb 1942

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

22

Coordinates

2.25° S, 106.00° E

Description

World World II mass killing

1942 massacre in Indonesia by Japan

The Bangka Island massacre was the killing of unarmed Australian nurses and wounded Allied soldiers on Bangka Island, east of Sumatra in the Indonesian archipelago on 16 February 1942. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific troops of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered 22 Australian Army nurses, 60 Australian and British soldiers, and crew members from the Vyner Brooke.

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