2nd Lt John Snyder Houghton
Tokyo Kempei Tai
Koishikawa Military Cemetery
Resume of Official Records

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Below are the six pages of the Resume of Official Records Pertaining to Remains Recovered from Koishikawa Military Cemetery , Tokyo, Japan.
Date of the report is 24 January 1949

These were obtained from Col Byron Brugge's IDPF and concern
Case History 051.

Lt Houghton's name is the 5th one in this first document concerning Reception Condition of the men's bodies. Date of Crash and Date of Death are noted.

At the bottom of the fourth page he is listed as having
' died from burns 11 April 1945 '.

At his main page are two pages from Missing Air Crew Report 13762 in which two survivors describe him as being badly burned. The Mansell POW Database has his cause of death due to poisoning.