Massacres - one in revenge for other?
How did one man with a Tommy gun know over the other?
Why was it that Corporal Jack Owen opened fire with his tommy gun into the backs of Japanese prisoners at Featherston’s PoW Camp in New Zealand in 1943? He wasn’t under threat. With no obvious answer, Owen’s rage is mostly overlooked, or seen as a coincidence.
Not at all, said his niece and adopted daughter much later. It was revenge for the killing of h…
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