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KUSUMOTO, Tominosuke (Major) [Marginal Note: (Sugamo) 30 Aug 47 ] 420 (no date) Yukino, et al. Kusumoto was reported to have said that Yukino told him 15 or 16 Americans were beheaded after the war. In an interview with Nakamura on 15 August, Kusumoto ordered Nakamura to his office at about 1500. Yukino was there. Kusumoto told Nakamura that they would execute fliers at Aburayama the next day and instructed Nakamura to get coffins made and to cremate the bodies. |
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Statement of Yukino (not in file). About two or three days after the call Yukino was ordered by Kusumoto to go to the Komyoji Buddhist Temple to pick up the ashes of eight or nine fliers. He did so and turned them over to Kusumoto. When asked by the interrogator if it was not true that on 15 August 1945 at 1500 Nakamura was ordered to Kusumoto's office, at which time Yukino was there, and at which time Kusumoto told Nakamura that the fliers held would be executed that day and that Nakamura was told to get the coffins and cremate the bodies, Yukino stated he believed this statement was correct. |
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Statement of Sato (420 - 25 Feb 1947). Kusumoto was in charge of the Adjutant's Section after 25 June. In the Fall of 1945, on his return from Hiroshima, Sato discussed a new plan of concealment with Fukushima and Sato after Central Army would not accept the Atomic Bomb alibi. At that time they agreed on the story that 31 or 32 fliers were sent to Tokyo by air. (Kusumoto, a Major). |