On this date, April 3, 1946, The Poet General, Masaharu Homma was executed by firing squad. He had received the same fate as General Tomoyuki Yamashita in the Command Responsibility Law, in this case, he failed to stop his men in the infamous Bataan Death March.
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Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu (本間雅晴Homma Masaharu) |