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Aug 8, 2025 inhistory

An Australian POW, Sgt. Leonard Siffleet, captured in New Guinea, about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a guntō, 1943. This photo is often misidentified as Flight Lieutenant Bill Newton, who suffered a similar fate.

An Australian POW, Sgt. Leonard Siffleet, captured in New Guinea, about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a guntō, 1943. This photo is often misidentified as Flight Lieutenant Bill Newton, who suffered a similar fate.

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