Secret World War II soldiers identified 80 years on | ABC NEWS
Few Australians know that during World War II, a shadowy military unit operated in Northern Australia, tasked with catching and killing Japanese soldiers who made it ashore. The unit was unusual in many ways, with Aboriginal warriors patrolling with spears instead of guns and relying on men recruited from the Solomon Islands. More than eighty years later, those overseas soldiers have been identified for the first time.
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