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56, employed in the KIU Medical College Attached Hospital Microscopic Photography Section under Ishizawa for 30 years, takes pictures of germs under the microscope, pictures of patients with unusual diseases, photographs of flesh, skin, cells, organs, veins, slides, and any other medical items the professors might wish photographed. About the time of the air raid (19 June 1945) Takahashi went to the servants room; someone said there were some PWs killed in the building. Takahashi said he didn't believe it. Yata said he would show him, took him to the dissection room; Takata and Takagi came with them. They all looked at the bodies. Takahashi was about a meter away from the bodies. Takahashi saw 2 coffins in the middle of the floor in the section nearest the hallway, close together, with the lids off. The Prisoners wore green underwear. One body was face down in the coffin; the head was cut off, not present. There were 2 bodies in the 2nd coffin, the top body coming over the top of the coffin. Both bodies were stomach down, facing the same way, both had the heads off. Takata said, "This Prisoner went to the toilet." They were in the room for about 3 minutes. Takahashi didn't see the heads anywhere. Takahashi heard the bodies were of prisoners; the bodies were comparatively white, bigger than the average Japanese body. They filled up the whole coffin box. |