The first document is titled
Resume of Information
and summarizes information that was available by 1 December 1949.
Remains of 25 of the POWs had been identified at this time.
A recommendation was to consider the remains of
the remaining 37 to be Non-Recoverable.
In this document the Legal Section, General Headquarters,
Supreme Commander Allied Powers ( SCAP ) is noted.
This is followed by a document dated 19 October 1949
signed by Lt Col T H Metz of the Quartermaster Corps.
Recommendations for individual identification of 7 POWs is disapproved.
The last document is undated.
Headquarters 8th Army sent a recommendation to the Board of Review
to
declare Non-Recoverable the remains :
" of 37 individuals believed to be Tokyo Military
Prison fire victims "
