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‘Die as Christ Did,’ Jap Told U.S. Fliers Strapped to CrossesSHANGHAI, April 9 (AP—Capt. Sotojiro Tatsuta, commander of the firing squad which executed three of Gen. Jimmy Doolittle’s airmen in 1942, described how he had strapped the Americans to crosses and then urged them to take heart as they were dying “as Christ did.”“I told them,” Tatsuta testified at his war crimes trial before an American military commission, “that Christ died on the cross and they must die on the cross. When you die on the cross, you will be honoredas gods.”Tatsuta said the Americans made no final statement other than to request that their families be told they’had died bravely.
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Wed, Apr 10, 1946
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