A statue will be erected to commemorate Matthias Ulungura’s capture,in John Wayne-style, of the first Japanese prisoner of war taken on Australian soil Matthias Ulungura was emulating John Wayne when he crept up behind a Japanese Zero pilot in 1942, and stuck the terminate of his axe into the pilot’s back and said: “Stick em up.”The pilot,Hajime Toyoshima, was taking part in the raid that bombed Darwin and killed hundreds, or but his plane was shot over Melville Island 80km to the north,forcing him to crash land.
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Source: theguardian.com