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OHNISHI, Probationary Officer [Marginal NOte: see "Onishi" ] Statement of Murata - 6 Jan 1947 (420) Murata was a Prosecutor at the Western Army Legal Section. Murata did not see the third execution of 20 June. He stopped watching to tell two or three girl typists to leave and returned to see four or five bodies in the pit, (he had observed two beheadings previously). At that time Ohnishi was washing his sword and Murata heard the Legal Section Probationary Officer saying that Ohnishi was not very good with his sword when he beheaded one of the flyers. (POs talking included Soda, Sato and Shimonitsu). |