On this day in ...... 1946, General Tomoyuki Yamashita (right) was executed by hanging at Los Baños Prison Camp, 30 miles south of Manila in the Philippines. As posted, the previous December a U.S. military commission had applied a theory of command responsibility to convict Yamashita, the leader of Japanese troops that committed atrocities during an unsuccessful battle against the United States for control of the Philippines. Earlier in February 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court had denied the appeal lodged by Yamashita.
(Prior February 23 posts are here, here, and here)
