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| Description | Sergeant Hosotani Naoji (left, seated) of the Kenpeitai (Japanese secret police) at Sandakan is interrogated by Squadron Leader F. G. Birchall (second right) of the Missing Servicemen Section and U. S. Army Sergeant Mamo (right) of the Allied Translator and Interpreter Service on October 26, 1945. Naoji confessed to shooting two Australian POWs and five Chinese civilians. He was subsequently charged with perpetrating War Crimes, tried in a military court, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Naoji was executed by firing squad on 6th March 1946. (Photographer: Frank Burke) |
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| Source | Australian War Museum Image No. 121782 |
| Author | Burke, Frank Albert Charles |
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