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.

There is a gap in the records as thus far a small group of us working on these POW Heroes cannot determine what took place with their remains.

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.

 

CASE HISTORY 051
MISSING AIR CORPS PERSONNEL
5 AUGUST 1947

PART OF A LIST OF 81 NAMES

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HEADQUARTERS EIGHT ARMY
1 MARCH 1948

COVER LETTER FOR 65 REMAINS

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THE 62 MEN

source : Michael Krehl
Honoring SSgt Irvin Casper Ellingson

 

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