They didn’t actually shoot them on the spot. they put them in the stockade to see if the Brits or one of the other allies came forward to claim them. I suppose the Brits asked them questions about Manchester United or Piccadilly Circus to see who got shot.
What still gets me is his mother went to my high school on Mercer Island, next to Seattle Wa. Mercer Island is a somewhat affluent community and he has never mentioned where his mama went to school. Even while in Seattle he mentioned briefly his mother went to “school near here” somewhere but it doesn’t sound as good, dada from Africa mama from Kansas. When he went to high school it was at Punahu, the hardest to get into and most expensive in Hawaii, there seems to be a lot he doesn’t want to talk about or can’t “remember”