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WW2 veterans tour Muar River battleground

(2 Sep 2007) SHOTLIST 1. Simpang Kiri River 2. Veterans stepping out of bus 3. Veterans watching 4. Wide of veterans walking 5. Various of veterans listening to briefing 6. Wide of Australian and Malaysian flags 7. Mid of veterans looking at the memorial stone 8. Close up of memorial stone reading (in English) "In remembrance of all those who fought died and risked their lives at Muar, Bakri and Parit Sulong, January 1942." 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jack Varley, Australian War Veteran "It's quite emotional. My first time back here for 60 years. I came back here to pay my respects to the people who got killed here and got wounded here." 10. Cutaway of Australian troops 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Kerr, Australian War Veteran "We did the best that we could with... what's the word I am searching for... with what we had. We had no air force, no navy, so the disadvantage was all our way, not the advantage. So I am very proud of what the Australians did. Very proud." 12. Mid shot of inscription 13. Tilt down of picture of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson to picture of Australian veterans in action 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rita Dean, war widow "Please teach the schoolchildren the story of the battles here. So they will appreciate us, as well as your soldiers that were here." 15.Veteran watching from bus 16. Wide of people looking at ruined landmark 17. Mid shot of landmark house STORYLINE A group of Australian World War II veterans who survived one of the darkest moments of the Malayan campaign on Sunday revisited the battlefields to pay tribute to comrades killed by the Japanese, in what has been described as one of the worst atrocities perpetrated on Australians in the war. The victims of the atrocity were wounded and exhausted men left behind as some Allied soldiers fighting in Muar, Bakri and Parit Sulong fled the Japanese push towards Singapore. Their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson, had left them in order to transfer able bodied soldiers back to British lines for the final defence of Singapore. Anderson reached British lines with less than one-third of his original force and was later awarded the Victoria Cross for his leadership and gallantry - the first VC to have been awarded to an Australian during the war in the Pacific. The men that were left behind had no choice but to surrender to the Imperial Guards Division of the Japanese army at Parit Sulong and expected to be treated as prisoners of war. Instead, the soldiers - 110 Australians and 35 soldiers from other British Empire Units - were killed that same day. Only three soldiers are known to have survived the massacre; all are now deceased. The villagers of Parit Sulong also suffered and many Malaysians were executed or severely mistreated, while others were forced to flee. Seven veterans on the Malaya campaign and two war widows visited Parit Sulong on Sunday to help dedicate a special memorial there, erected there by the Australian government. For Australia, the Malayan campaign between December 1941 and February 1942 was one of the toughest and most costly of the war. More than one thousand and 780 nationals were killed, 13-hundred wounded and 15-thousand taken prisoner. The man who ordered the killing of the soldiers, General Takuma Nishimura, was later found guilty of ordering the atrocity and was hanged for it in 1951. His commander, General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who would himself be executed for war crimes, called the massacre "one of the worst atrocities" of the campaign. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...