File:Sergeant Leonard Siffleet, Chief Petty Officer Watanabe Teruo.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionSergeant Leonard Siffleet, Chief Petty Officer Watanabe Teruo.jpg |
English: Aitape, New Guinea. 24 October 1943. A photograph found on the body of a dead Japanese soldier showing NX143314 Sergeant (Sgt) Leonard G. Siffleet of "M" Special Unit, wearing a blindfold and with his arms tied, prior to being beheaded with a sword. The Japanese soldier to Siffleet's left is Chief Petty Officer Watanabe Teruo. A group of local men and Japanese stand and crouch in the background. The execution was ordered by Vice Admiral Kamada, the commander of the Japanese Naval Forces at Aitape. Sgt Siffleet was captured with Private (Pte) Pattiwahl and Pte Reharin, Ambonese members of the Netherlands East Indies Forces, whilst engaged in reconnaissance behind the Japanese lines. The executioner, Yasuno Chikao, died before the end of the war. |
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Categories:
- 27-year-old human males
- Black and white photographs of Japan in the 1940s
- Black and white photographs of kneeling men
- Black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea
- Beheading of Leonard George Siffleet
- Black and white images of men wearing shorts
- Military people in 1943
- 1943 in Papua New Guinea
- October 1943 in Oceania
- Pacific War in October 1943
- Men of Australia in 1943
- Men of Japan in 1943
- People with blindfolds
- Prisoners of war in Japan in World War II
- West Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)