Probationary Officer Baba

Identified only as “Diary by Probationary Officer Baba” from a diary retrieved by American forces in Manila and subsequently included in documents for war crimes trials.

10 February 1945

February 10, 1945

10 Feb – At 3d Shipping Headquarters. [Intramuros] 0130 – 2d Lt Ainouchi came from Detachment Headquarters and requested me to emplace one field gun;