Prisoners of War 1942 - 1945 Within three months of the Japanese entering World War II on December 8th, 1941, over 22 thousand Australian troops had become prisoners of war. They were placed into camps in Timor, ... from their own army to look after the soldiers. Escape was essentially out of the question. So the Japanese decided to corral the troops on the Changi Peninsula of Singapore, cream off all the senior soldiers and take them away to Manchuria - but decided that they should leave the military structure intact so that the Allies would ultimately be responsible for ... which the troo...

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