Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (died 1946)

Masaharu Homma

Japanese officer, war criminal 1887–1946

Masaharu Homma was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army, which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March. After the war, Homma was convicted of war crimes relating to the actions of…