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Ofuna POW camp liberated... Doolittle executions...
Ofuna POW camp liberated... Doolittle executions...
Item # 719732
September 07, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 7, 1945
* U.S. prisoners freed from Ofuna Camp
* Executions of Doolittle raiders told
The top of page 5 has a one column heading: "8,000 MEN FREED OF 32,500 IN JAPAN" with subhead and 2 related photos showing a few liberated Yankees freed from Ofuna prisoner-of-war camp. This was the POW camp that held Louis Zamperini and Pappy Boyington.
Also on the same page is a one column heading: "5 MORE EXECUTIONS CHARGED TO JAPAN" with subhead. (see images) This was related to the U.S. airmen shot down during the Doolittle raid in 1942.
Complete with 40 pages, rag edition in nice condition.
AI notes: The Ofuna Camp, a clandestine Japanese naval interrogation center located near Yokohama, was liberated in late August 1945 following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II. Unlike regular POW camps, Ofuna was not registered with the International Red Cross and operated outside the bounds of the Geneva Convention, making it a site of severe mistreatment and secrecy. Allied prisoners—mostly pilots, submariners, and intelligence personnel—were held in solitary confinement, denied mail or Red Cross parcels, and subjected to harsh interrogations that included beatings, starvation, and psychological abuse. Among its most well-known prisoners was Olympic athlete and U.S. airman Louis Zamperini, whose story later gained prominence through the book and film Unbroken. Liberation came as U.S. forces began occupying Japan in the days following Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of surrender on August 15, 1945, with American troops arriving to free the surviving prisoners and document the abuses committed. The exposure of Ofuna’s conditions contributed to the broader understanding of Japanese war crimes and the brutal treatment of POWs during the Pacific War.
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