U.K. website releases papers of day before Bose plane crash
The HinduA U.K.-based website set up to chart the last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has released documents relating to the day before his plane crashed in August 1945. Several Indian and Japanese witnesses testified this to the 1956 Netaji Inquiry Committee headed by Major General Shah Nawaz Khan, among them S.A. Ayer and Debnath Das of the Provisional Government of Free India and Colonel Habib ur Rahman of the Indian National Army — both headed by Bose. The Committee recorded that Bose “discarded a part of his baggage containing books, clothes, etc.” Lt. Gen. Shidei flew with him Among the Japanese passengers on board was Lt. Gen. Shidei, a distinguished officer who was on his way to Manchuria in China near the Soviet border to take command of the Japanese forces there. Lt. Col. Shiro Nonogaki, an Air Staff Officer of the Japanese Army, who was also one of the passengers, independently corroborated to the Committee: “The plane was scheduled to carry General Shidei to Manchuria.
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