Ration truck massacre

Ration truck massacre
Part of the Battle of Timor
LocationDili, Portuguese Timor
Date20 February 1942
TargetAustralian Army
Attack type
Shooting and stabbing
Deaths17
  • (3 at the Dili Airfield
  • 3 along the Comoro River
  • 11 in Dili)
Injured3
PerpetratorsImperial Japanese Army

The Ration truck massacre or the 1942 Dili massacre refers to the execution of 14 Australian soldiers and the killing of three others on 20 February 1942 in Portuguese Timor, during the Japanese invasion of Timor.

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