The BRUTAL Executions Of The Nurses Of Bangka Island

During the Second World War, there were a huge number of war crimes and atrocities committed by different armies. Some of the most shocking and brutal atrocities were committed by the Japanese Army, and the accounts of these are truly harrowing. Thousands of Prisoners of War were brutally slaughtered in their captivity, but there was one horrific war crime in which over 20 Australian nurses were executed enmass on a beach. The nurses were part of hundreds who fled Singapore onboard the ship the Vyner Brooke. The Vyner Brooke was attacked by the Japanese Air Force who sunk the ship, but after boarding the lifeboats over 20 Australian nurses washed up on Bangka Island, which was controlled by the Japanese. A number of other soldiers and civilians also washed up on the beach, but when approached by the Japanese Army, they sorted the men out into two groups. They then took the men further up the beach and then shot dozens of them in the sea in a brutal massacre and slaughter. But when they returned, they