Word: masaharu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheers on the Field. When Wainwright and his fellow generals deployed their troops, they had some 19,000 U.S. Regulars, 12,000 Philippine Scouts and 60,000 semi-trained Philippine army troops to meet the attack of General Masaharu Homma's 250,000 Japanese, supported by their uncontested control of the sea and the air. The troops, still the peacetime Army, were badly equipped. MacArthur ordered Wainwright to put into effect War Plan Orange, the 20-year-old strategy for a withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, where the defenders would wait for help from...
Aboard the ship also went 17 black wooden boxes containing the ashes of war criminals whose death sentences had already been carried out. Conspicuously missing: the bodies of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya," who was hanged unceremoniously in February 1946, and Lieut. General Masaharu Homma of Bataan death march notoriety, who was shot by a firing squad. Their bodies could not be found in a sugarcane field where they were thought to have been buried...