HOMMA TRIAL, SIXTEENTH DAY, MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 5679 111 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (A-677) 5679FTLM: ARCH & APC MP 986 ₽ ea COMPOSITE (PUSH-PULL) HOMMA TRIAL - SIXTEENTH DAY MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 21 JAN 1946 MCUs, Maj Tisdell (no first name given), continues his testimony telling what Gen Massaharu Homma's Chief of Staff told Gen Edward King through an interpreter: "You must get Gen Wainwright." Gen King said that he did not come to represent Wainwright and that he had come to secure terms for his forces on Bataan. The Japanese demanded unconditional surrender. After an appeal by Gen King for humane treatment for the surrendered forces, the interpreter of Homma's Chief of Staff said, "We are not barbarians." Gen King then surrendered. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERBS/1f

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities