The ordeal of Jacob Vouza
20th August 1942: A scout for the US Marine Corps on Guadalcanal refuses to give up their positions under torture by the Japanese
The British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands represented the farthest reaches of the Japanese landings of early 1942. The sparsely populated tropical islands had been administered before the war by British ‘District Officer’s assisted by native islanders in the role of police.
When the Japanese invaded the District Of…
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