Matthias Ulungura (1921–1980) (in some sources also referred to as Matthias Ngapiatulawai) was an Indigenous Australian from the Tiwi Islands, who in...

value. On February 24, he was taken prisoner by local Tiwi islander Matthias Ulungura. becoming the first Japanese combatant to be captured in Australian...

first Japanese captured on Australian soil, when indigenous resident Matthias Ulungura takes him prisoner. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive...