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Re: STARLING ORDER - Reply from Axel Niestle
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Date: August 16, 2002 05:33AM
<HTML>"...None were IJN officers executed for war crimes committed against US submarine POW's or against allied merchantmen..."
This is not true. There is at least one instance that an IJN officer was executed for war crimes. In March 1944, the heavy cruiser <I>Tone</I> sank the British merchant ship <I>Behar</I>. Rear-Admiral Noamasu Sakonju ordered the entire crew executed. In the end, a number of men were spared, mainly because the cruiser's captain, Captain Mayazumi, convinced his superior otherwise. Sakonju was executed after the war for this, Mayazumi was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.
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This is not true. There is at least one instance that an IJN officer was executed for war crimes. In March 1944, the heavy cruiser <I>Tone</I> sank the British merchant ship <I>Behar</I>. Rear-Admiral Noamasu Sakonju ordered the entire crew executed. In the end, a number of men were spared, mainly because the cruiser's captain, Captain Mayazumi, convinced his superior otherwise. Sakonju was executed after the war for this, Mayazumi was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.
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