M42

Crime tried

Accused

Trial location
Morotai
NAA Series
A471
NAA Control
80780
Trial start date
Trial end date
Trial sentence date

JAG report

HONJI/MATAGI

JAG advised that the findings and sentences should not be confirmed. Neither the accused or sailor can be held to have committed a war crimes as there was nothing to put them on guard that the order was an illegal one.

The real criminal was the staff officer who gave the order to Lt Miyazaki for the execution.

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