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Archive Home > 2013 > March > 07 > Wilpers was member of unit that caught Japan’s Tojo

Wilpers was member of unit that caught Japan’s Tojo

By Emily Langer / The Bulletin
March 7, 2013

WASHINGTON — John Wilpers Jr., a key member of the Army intelligence unit that arrested and thwarted the suicide of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister later executed for his war crimes during World War II, died Feb. 28 at a senior living home in Silver Spring, Md. He was 93.

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