SAKAMOTO Statement of Sakamoto (5 Dec 47). 61, a Dr., On May 1945, 5th or 6th, saw a parachutes from a burning plane, went over one mile to Oginolusa Village, where a crowd was around a flyer speaking of killing or haning him. Someone hit the flyer on the head with a bamboo stick, but the injury was slight. This was about 1100, the flyer jumped about 0900. He was sent to Miyaji about 1300 to the KT. The flyer told Sakamoto he had flown two Japanese missions, this second trip over Fukuoka, that his name was 2nd Lt. Plambeck. Skamoto gave him a rice ball, 3 cigarettes. Sakamoto then identified the photograph of Plambeck. |
This book documents the legal proceedings of the December 1949 Khabarovsk trial in which twelve members of the Japanese Army's covert biological warfare Unit 731 were prosecuted for their war crimes. The trial sought to hold key leaders in Japan's bio-weapons program accountable for atrocities after WWII.