SSgt Irvin Casper Ellingson
Tokyo Military Prison Fire
Names and Numbers
Page 1
These pages consist primarily of lists of men, some partial and some complete. Below is a page from Case History 051, the Koishikawa Military Cemetery. This is included because the Quarter Master Corps, responsible for recovery, identification, and burial, had to examine every conceivable location where a man's remains could be located. Some on this list had been at the Tokyo Military Prison prior to the fire. Below the first two files on this page is a list prepared by Michael Krehl used in Honoring Irvin Casper Ellingson. There is a concise accounting of the 62 men who died in the Prison fire. On page 2 is the most complete list, 134 men from Case History 111. The third page has two lists, the first with 46 names
most likely provided by Japanese sources, and the second naming the
37 men whose remains were non-recoverable. Questions include: Were they buried in US Armed Forces Cemetery Yokohama #1 as an entire Group of 37 Unknowns. Were there smaller groups of men buried in multiple
Unknown gravesites. As this Cemetery no longer exists, were their remains transported to either Manila American Cemetery or to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. |