ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93.
Hideki Tojo viewed the Japanese army as an instrument of divine destiny. He ultimately led his country to ruin.
ON THIS DAY IN 1945, the Eagle reported, “Tokyo, Sept. 11 (U.P.) – Gen. Hideki Tojo, the Japanese Premier who ordered the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, shot himself today and in what may be his last ...