Press - Post-War

Reports on the discovery at the Japanese War Ministry in Tokyo of farewell letters written by three Doolittle flyers prior to their execution. Gives excerpts and details from the letters written by Lt. William Farrow, Lt. Dean E. Hallmark, and Sgt. Harold A. Spaatz.

Reports the acquittal of Shunsuke Kato at the Yokohama trial held by the Eighth Army Military Commission. It was the first acquittal by this group. Gives details regarding the case against Kato who had been "accused of assisting Cpl. Naraichi Chihara to beat prisoners." Kato's defense included assertions that he was only following direct orders from his supervisor. Also reports on the sentencing of Pvt. Truo Ono and Cpl. Motoichi Sakagami.

Reported on the sentencing of six Japanese soldiers to death by hanging after they were convicted of "slaughter[ing] 23 Filipinos, rap[ing] seven and tortur[ing] five at Barili on Cebu island on February 1944."

Reports on the transportation of Lt. Gen. Shigeru Sawada from Shanghai to Japan in order to stand trial. He was accused of "appointing the court martial that passed the death sentences on three of Lieutenant General James Doolittle's flyers who were executed in 1942."

Reports on the statement released by Colonel Alva C. Carpenter, chief of the Legal Section of SCAP in light of the United States "Supreme Court's decision confirming the findings of the military tribunal which judged General Tomoyuki Yamashita." Gives full text of the statement.