Marutas of Unit 731: Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz (Uncovering Unit 731, #2)

by Jenny Chan

“Ha Bomb—The 40 kg

Armed with nose and tail impact fuses and containing 3 kilograms of TNT in the nose and tail compartments and central burster tube, the bomb exploded upon impact scattering bomb fragments, shrapnel and anthrax spores at high velocity in a horizontal direction.

From November 4, 1944 to March 26, 1945, a total of 69 balloons of Japanese origin were found in the United States, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, and Hawaii.

Fifteen additional incidents of bomb explosions and bomb recoveries have been reported. The balloons were recovered at locations including Washington, Oregon, Kansas, Central California, Northern California, North of Hawaii, Alaska, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, and Iowa.

However, the Office of Censorship in wartime America issued a message to newspapers and radio stations asking them to remain silent about the balloon incident in order to prevent panic in American public opinion.[45]

types of vaccines the Japanese Army administered. His troop was given immunization against typhoid, paratyphoid A, paratyphoid B, bacillary dysentery, botulinus, and cholera.

Gas gangrene and tetanus prophylaxis immunization were administered to the wounded. Salmonella immunization also was administered. The vaccines were produced at the Army Medical School in the Ushigome section of Tokyo.[50]

The list included water purification tablets, malaria medicine, mosquito repellent, water chlorination kits, antistreptococcal serum, vaccines for gas gangrene, dysentery, and typhoid, typhoid serum, athlete’s foot medication, and others to show that the Ishii Network had been very productive and interconnected with Japanese corporations.

‘I’m sending you all back home. When you get there, if any one of you gives away the secret of Unit 731, I personally will find you, even if I have to part the roots of the grass to do it.’ He had a fearful diabolical look on his face—my legs were shaking—and not just at me—at everyone. ‘Even if I have to part the grasses…’”[54]

After escaping, Ishii faked his death, but was found by the CIA.[55]

Out of the 3607 members of Unit 731, only 12 were brought to Soviet Union for the Khabarovsk Trial and most were released by 1956 except for one who committed suicide in a Soviet jail.

The other scientists traded their research results from Unit 731 for immunity from the United States. The U.S.’s Camp Detrick was the recipient of that information.