AMERICAN AIRMEN
EXECUTED BY JAPANESE (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 15. The Tokio official radio announced that several American airmen who were captured in the first Super Fortress raid on Kyushu have been executed. The announcer added: “Any Allied airmen falling or baling out over Japan will be executed. This ia an order of the day.” Later the Office of War Information said that the Japanese broadcast suggested that American flyers might have been executed or at least held for execution. The broadcast originated In Singapore, and was beamed to the American forces in the South-west Pacific. Reception was so poor that only a few excerpts were Intelligible. In the absence of official confirmation and pending clarification, War Department officials reserved comment on the report.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25589, 17 July 1944, Page 5
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