Oral History Interview with William R. Gill

Résumé du livre

Interview with William R. Gill, agronomist and Army veteran (A Company, 389th Infantry Regiment, 98th Division), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II; also his experiences and role in the Pacific War Crimes Tribunal in postwar Japan. Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943; assignment to the 98th Division and posting to Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, 1944; jungle warfare training on Kauai; his appointment as executive officer of A Company; amphibious training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands; occupation duty at Osaka, Japan; assignment to the Legal Section of the Pacific War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo, Japan; his investigation of Japanese crimes against foreign nationals; his investigation of the Japanese use of Allied POWs for propaganda activities during the war; his investigation of the Japanese use of POWs as slave laborers; his investigation of murders of downed fliers by the Japanese; his investigation of atrocities committed by Japanese POW camp commandants; comments about "Tokyo Rose"; reassignment to the U.S. in 1948 and his later civilian career. Appendix includes five leaves from "The hunt for Tokyo Rose, ' By Russell Warren Howe and four leaves from "Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific," by Masayo Duus.