Manila War Crimes Trials
- esp. of Homma and Yamashita, MacA's previous adversaries
- kangaroo courts - fake evidence, hearsay
- no lawyers, but only conducted by military officers guided by SCAP
- no hard evidence linked Homma with Death March
- no hard evidence that Yamashita respon for sack of Manila
- U.S. Sp. Ct. upheld verdicts, but dissent by Frank Murphy & Wiley Rutledge
- Yamashita stripped of uniform and hung Feb. 23, 1946
- Homma shot March 3
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