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In Manila this week, Japan’s tall, suave Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, convicted of responsibility for the Bataan Death March, was given punishment to fit the crime. A U.S. military tribunal sentenced him to march to death—then decided, unlike the commission which decreed hanging for Yamashita, that death should be by firing squad.
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