FIRST BOMBING OF TOKIO
Fliers Executed (8.35 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 26. American officials disclosed that three of Lieutenant-General Doolittle’s fliers who bombed Tokio were executed at Kiangawan, in China, in October, 1942, after a half-hour court-martial conducted entirely in Japanese. The filers were accused of strafing school children. According to a captured Japanese document eight fliers were condemned to death. Five sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. Four survivors were liberated from prison camps in China. One died in camp after an illness of 10 days. The ashes of the three executed men are being sent to the United States.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23317, 28 September 1945, Page 5
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