Last letters
First published
11/13/2018
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history
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In April 1942 a Japanese bomber dropped four large mail bags on Port Moresby. They contained nearly 400 letters written by Australian POWs imprisoned in Rabaul. Why did the Japanese make this mail drop? And what happened to the men after they wrote them?
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