SSgt Robert Loran Pellicot
Osaka Castle
Recovery and Identification
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Case History 328 ( Revised ) is dated 27 January 1947.
These pages are from TSgt Leo G Copulos' IDPF.

The complete document contains ten pages and four of them are below.
This includes a summary of recovery at three burial locations in and around Osaka.

The Jonan Rifle Range is located within Osaka Castle,
Sanadayma Military Cemetery is 1-2 miles South of the Castle,
and the Shinodayama Military Maneuver Area is approximately 10 miles South.

In Paragraph 3.a. the executions at Jonan Rifle Range
took place the first part of August.
This matches the Charges and Specifications found in Yokohama Trial T-328 :

" On or about 5 August 1945 "

Paragraph 5 in Page 3 begins the disinterments and
a list of unknowns recovered ( X-1 through X-14 ) at the Jonan Rifle Range.

SSgt Pellicot was the first to be recovered and he was designated as X-1.

Handwritten names at the right side of the page indicate that other men
from the Newell Crew were identified at a later date.

 

CASE HISTORY 328 ( REVISED )
27 JANUARY 1947
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