MIKE'S LETTERS
SHORT STORYW A R C R I M E S O F F I C E
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Date:14 OCT 1945
- YOUR NAME…..DALEY MICHAEL J
- RANK: CORPORAL SERIAL NO. 39156123
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PERMANENT HOME ADDRESS 2421 Main St Parsons Kansas
- AT WHAT ENEMY CAMPS AND HOSPITALS WERE YOU CONFINED AND WHEN
WERE YOU AT EACH? (If never a prisoner of war or internee, then state principal places you have been from time to time while overseas).
OHASI
HAKODATE
BIBIA
- DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT ANY ATROCITIES AGAINST, OR MISTREATMENT OF AMERICANS, PRISONERS OF WAR, CIVILIAN INTERNEES, OR THE CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR WHICH YOU THINK THE PERPETRATORS SHOULD BE PUNISHED? (Answer by stating YES or NO IN THE SPACES PROVIDED BELOW).
- Killings or execution -NO
- Torture, beatings or other cruelties -YES
- Imprisonment under improper conditions -NO
- Massacres, wholesale looting or burning of towns -NO
- Use of prisoners of war on enemy military works or operations -YES
- Exposure of prisoners of war to danger of gunfire, bombing, torpedoing, or other hazards of war -NO
- Transportation of prisoners of war under improper conditions -YES
- Public exhibition or exposure to ridicule of prisoners of war -NO
- Failure to provide prisoners of war with proper medical care, food or quarters -YES
- Collective punishment of a group for offense of others -NO
- Any other atrocities not specifically mentioned for which you think the guilty persons should be punished -NO
IF ANY QUESTION IS ANSWERED YES, THEN STATE THE FACTS BRIEFLY ON
REVERSE SIDE OF THIS SHEET.DETAILS OF ATROCITIES
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KIND OF CRIME |
WHERE IT HAPPENED |
WHO WAS THE VICTIM (include name, nationality & whether military personnel or not). |
STATE IF YOU SAW IT YOURSELF IF YOU DID NOT SEE IT, WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT IT |
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- Torture and beatings were frequent happenings in all the camps I was held. Eddie Cudd American merchantman and Harry Egraw U.S.N. were one example in Hakodate they told me of it.
2. Working on gunboats at Hakodate dockyards.
C. Our trip from Java to Singapore and Singapore to Japan.
I. On the same trip and a good part of the time in prison camp mentioned.
HAVE YOU PREVIOUSLY BEEN QUESTIONED BY ANY MILITARY ORNAVAL AUTHORITIES ABOUT ATROCITIES OR MISTREATMENT? YES
IF YES BY WHOM, WHERE,. WHEN…..U. S. ARMY 29TH REP. CENTER. MANILA
DID YOU MAKE A SIGNED STATEMENT?…………………..YES
Michael J. Daley
Sign your name here.
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SHORT STORYFrom the Kansas City Star Jan. 23, 1945:
JAP CRIME LIST GROWS
ARREST OF 48, INCLUDING THREE GENERALS, ORDERED.
Matsuoka, Erstwhile Foreign Minister Who Sealed Axis Tie, Surrenders and Is Placed in Sugamo Prison.TOKYO, Jan. 23.(AP)--General MacArthur today ordered the arrest of forty-eight more Japanese as war criminals, and in a renewed drive against the Nipponese military, included three lieutenant generals.
Ordered to report to Sugamo prison "at the earliest practical date: were Lieut. Gen. Yuichiro Nagano, commander of the Osamu army groups in Batavia in June and July, 1945; Lieut. Gen. Fusataro Teshima, who commanded the Second army, and Lieut. Gen. Seichi Yamada, commander of the 5th division. The remainder were military of lesser rank and civilians, including a number of guards at prisoner of war camps.
NAVAL MEN ACCUSED.
Also named were a number of naval personnel who were stationed at Infanta, Luzon, including Cap. Takesu Furuse and two junior grade lieutenants. There was no explanation for inclusion of the naval personnel.
Allied headquarters reported the surrender of Yosuke Matusuoka, former foreign minister credited with responsibility for bringing Japan into the Axis line-up under the tripartite pact.
Matsuoka, who has been ill, was placed in Sugamo prison to await trial on war crimes charges.
On the political front, Kyodo news agency said parliamentary viceminister have resigned en bloc to clear the way for the forthcoming elections. The resignations were submitted today to Premier Kijuro Shidehara, who approved the action, but they will not be effective until after a cabinet meeting Friday.
CONSTITUTION AN ISSUE
Cabinet sources indicated that proposed revision of Japan’s constitution may become an election issue. They said Dr. Joji Matsumoto, chairman of the cabinet committee on revision, is anxious publicly to announce a final draft of the plan before the campaign reaches a climax. Tokyo yesterday experienced its first outbreak of unauthorized food seizures.
An official of the home industry, which directs distribution of goods found by occupation forces and turned over to the government confirmed that food stored in a former arsenal had been seized by civilians and distributed among some 3,000 residents of two Tokyo wards.There was no violence and the demonstration was orderly, but it was termed part of a growing movement for public control of necessities.
TWO JAPS TO FACE TRIAL.
General Macarthur’s headquarters announced it is preparing to try on war crimes charges a Japanese medical officer accused of contributing to the deaths of eight British prisoners of war and a non-commissioned officer accused of atrocities against thirty-five Americans.
The medical officer, Lieut. Shigeru Aono, is charged with permitting members of his medical staff at Hakodate main prison camp to commit cruel and brutal atrocities and the "he did himself unlawfully commit cruel and brutal atrocities: against British prisoners."Kitaro (the Bull) Ishida is accused of immersing American prisoners in cold water, forcing them to stand wet and naked in winter winds, forcing water under pressure into their mouths and nostrils, striking and beating them with clubs, belts, fists and ropes, and holding one man’s head under water until he lost consciousness.
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