INJURED U.S. PILOT
Threatened With Torture NEW YORK. August 22. . \ message from Manila reports that an injured American pilot. Captain Dan Shaw, was released by the Japanese in the Philippines with a personal note f:om Genera! Yamashita. Shaw said lie parachuted frthn a burning fighter behind the Japanese lines, was held prisoner for nine days and threatened with torture if he refused to yield information, but the treatment impro'**d the day after the Emperor’s capitulation was announcod.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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77INJURED U.S. PILOT Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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