HIROSHI OSHIMA - SALZBURG

Hiroshi Oshima with his family and staff evacuated Berlin to Austria in the closing days of WWII in Europe. Oshima was sent to Pennsylvania in the U.S. and later to Japan where he received life at the Tokyo War Crime Trials. Paroled in 1955, he died 20 years later reportedly without knowledge of how he unwittingly, and tremendously, aided the Allied effort. His intercepted overly-detailed diplomatic correspondence about the Atlantic Wall defenses and troop dispositions were invaluable intelligence aiding the success of the Normandy landings.

photo: dogfacesoldiers collection

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HIROSHI OSHIMA || SALZBURG || SCHLOSS KLESSHEIM || SIR HAROLD
ALEXANDER || AUDIE MURPHY || RECREATION || OCCUPATION - GERMANY

 
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