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Parent | Former Jap Officers Face War Crime Charge News Article |
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Date | |
Language | English |
Collection | C.W.J. Phelps Collection |
Box | Box 2 |
Folder | Second Phelps Scrap Book |
Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
Former Jap Officers Face War Crime Charge
Three former Japanese naval officers, Toyoaki Inagaki, Minoru Toyama and Yoshiyuki Makamura, were charged yesterday with complicity with a former Japanese vice-admiral in the execution of four unidentified American airmen.
The Americans, sole survivors of a B-24 shot down over the Celebes Islands in June, 1945, were transported by Japanese secret police to Makassar where they were executed by swords, without trial.