siege1863 Posted October 19, 2014 Share #1 Posted October 19, 2014 This 2-Peso Philippines "Victory" note is a recent pick-up. It is signed by Generals Tomoyuki Yamashita (in Kanji and English), Shizuo Yokoyama, and Akira Muto, and dates to the time of Yamashita's trial. Yokoyama and Muto were defense witnesses. In later trials, the two were also convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. Muto was hanged in December 1948. Yokoyama sentence was reduced to life and he was later pardoned by the president of the Philippines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siege1863 Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share #2 Posted October 19, 2014 Yamashita and Muto seen at the trial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatic Posted October 19, 2014 Share #3 Posted October 19, 2014 I love currency with ties to military history, as it combines both of my hobbies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadet Posted October 19, 2014 Share #4 Posted October 19, 2014 Neat. My Dad served in the occupation army in the Philippines as an MP. He was assigned to guard the defendants at these trials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pchepurko Posted November 16, 2014 Share #5 Posted November 16, 2014 That photo is very surprising to me in that American solders would be hanging out and smoking with Japanese officer on trial for war crimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarbridge Posted November 16, 2014 Share #6 Posted November 16, 2014 Not trying to normalize this at all...but being in contact daily can make you familiar with people...so it takes off the edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadet Posted November 16, 2014 Share #7 Posted November 16, 2014 My Dad would have been like the guard in the background with the pith helmet. He said he was friendly with them as well. He had lied about his age to get in the Army and was only a 17 year old kid at the time. He had a rough time in the PI. He contracted a tropical disease and was sent back to San Francisco on a hospital ship. When he came in, the Army trained him as an artilleryman. They needed MPs more than artillerymen, so he ended up doing that instead. While at Fort Sill though, he was in a horrible training accident that involved the crash of a spotter plane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Scott Posted November 16, 2014 Share #8 Posted November 16, 2014 I think interacting every day with a prisoner does form some kind of a bond with people in captivity.Herman Goering's fatal cyanide pill death was directly related to a friendly relationship he started with a young U.S. Lieutenant.The Lieutenant allowed Goering to go to his locker unattended where Goering retrieved his hidden pill and then took it.There are many books out that say Yamashita by todays standards could not have been hung for War Crimes.He was a very interesting Japanese General and a very complex human being.Scotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarbridge Posted November 16, 2014 Share #9 Posted November 16, 2014 It is like your in-laws. ..you did not pick them but are stuck spending time with them. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usa1918 Posted November 17, 2014 Share #10 Posted November 17, 2014 What I find more surprising, is that when you compare these defendants with those at Nuremberg, they are wearing their ribbons and insignia of rank. Were the rules different at different trial sites? Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pathfinder505 Posted November 17, 2014 Share #11 Posted November 17, 2014 I am not trying to highjack your post but I also have a note signed by yamashita and given to a guard. I was able to obtain a grouping from one of his guards which contains pictures and his badge. Also, I asked about the uniform he wore as a guard. He said they only wore the khaki shirts and pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted November 17, 2014 Share #12 Posted November 17, 2014 I think the Japanese military was allowed to still exist in it's postwar form, with the same uniforms and insignia. The Germans were quite different in that they were ordered to change a great deal of their military uniforms and insignia for obvious reasons, immediately after the war. As for Yamashita himself, you can argue his role in the massacres in Manila and Sook Ching for a very long time with no clear result... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted November 18, 2014 Share #13 Posted November 18, 2014 The 784th MP batallion guarded Yamashita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growler Posted November 27, 2014 Share #14 Posted November 27, 2014 I have these bills collected by my Aunt who was in the USO entertaining the troops. Japanese bills.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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