MAJOR ODAMURA, OF THE JAPANESE KENPEITAI (MILITARY POLICE), REPLIES TO A QUESTION PUT BY THE ...

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Halmahera Island, Morotai Island
Accession Number OG3723
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Harrison, John Thomas
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Halmahera Island, Morotai Island
Date made 15 January 1946
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

MAJOR ODAMURA, OF THE JAPANESE KENPEITAI (MILITARY POLICE), REPLIES TO A QUESTION PUT BY THE AUSTRALIAN PROSECUTING OFFICER DURING WAR CRIMINALS TRIALS. MAJOR ODAMURA WAS SUBSEQUENTLY FOUND NOT GUILTY OF HAVING ORDERED THE EXECUTION OF THREE UNIDENTIFIED RAAF PRISONERS OF WAR (POWS) AT TOMOHON AND MENADO, NORTHERN CELEBES, ON 19 JUNE 1945.