I'm trying to find the MACR for this man. He was executed by the Japanese on 15 August 1945. We know he is listed as the 98th Bomb Sqn but don't know anything else.
 

Roger Mansell
Director
Center For Research
Allied POWS Under The Japanese

Hello Roger, I have some data for you.

Jesse-
We would appreciate any info regarding this man and his crew. I tried your "yahoo: mail account but it has been discontinued by Yahoo (same as mine) because of "lack of use".
\Thanks,
Roger@mansell.com

Roger Mansell
Director
Center For Research
Allied POWS Under The Japanese

Name:
Aubrey B. Dixon

State Registered:
Hawaii


 

Death Date:
15 Aug 1945

Cemetery:
Tablets of The Missing At Honolulu Memorial

Cemetery Burial Plot:
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea

Cemetery City:
Honolulu

Cemetery Country:
Hawaii


 

War:
World War II

Awards:
Air Medal, Purple Heart

Title:
Sergeant

Rank:
Sergeant

Service:
U.S. Army Air Forces

Service ID:
14166366

Division:
98th Bomber Squadron, 11th Bomber Group, Heavy

Data Source:
World War II Honor Roll
 
Terry T.

MACR #14889
B-24M 44-50958 11BG/98BS  31 Jul 1945
Flight to bomb Nagasaki, Japan
Pilot:1st.Lt. Warren Weldon Dyess
Engineer: Sgt.Aubrey Butler Dixon #14166366
Loc:32.45N x 129.30E
Crew listed as;MIA
 
Found on footnote.com
http://www.footnote.com/image/63552406/B%7cDixon%7cAubrey/#63552406
 
 
Terry T.

I keep trying to send you data on this, Roger, but I think I'm being retributionally blocked, so may try another means of seeking you out.

Hi again, Roger! Sgt Dixon was an Engineer with the Dyess crew aboard B.24M #44.50958 they departed Yonten, Okinawa, on July 31, 1945, on a bombing mission to Nagasaki.Ken, Fukueshima. The aircraft was believed to have been struck by flak over the target, and when last seen had two engines out. It subsequently crashed into the sea off the Nagasaki coast, and six of the crew managed to make shore in liferafts. They were captured at Sakiyama, Fukue Island, on August 2. After being held prisoner at the Army District Headquarters, they were executed at Aburayama on or about August 15, 1945, and their bodies were subsequently cremated. Several of the Western Army Headquarters personnel involved in this and other war crimes were later prosecuted. Interestingly, out of the six crash survivors, Dixon was the only enlisted man.

In all the years of reading the history of World War II in the Pacific I only read one account of Japanese military personnel being kind or doing a nice thing to an Allied POW.  

At our Round Table last month we had a World War Two Air Corp Sgt. who shared he was a POW of both the Germans and the Japanese.

He has NO good memories or thoughts of the Japanese experience as a POW. 

His German Doctor treated both Allied and Germans in the field hospital the same and because he did the crewman recovered to escape. 

Germans soldiers had pulled him out of this wrecked plane or he would have died. He was the only crew member to survive. 

He was a radioman and sent to the Pacific Theater after escaping from the Germans. The Japanese made his already difficult life as a POW even worse, he had nothing good to say of it.  They tortured him for nothing, he had nothing to give up.

He declined to say much more because it was not a pleasant or good memory for him to recall in public, he did reveal more privately. 

Sincerely yours,
PA.Dutchman

Son of T/Sgt. Ray A. Heilman, JR.
11 TH Field Artillery 1937-1940
Schofield Barracks
7 TH AAC 11 BGH 42 Sq.1940-45
Hickam Survivor 12/7/1941
AAC Armorer (P) 911
P.U.Citation1942

Dutchman:
 I wondered why you posted that..it has nothing to do with the orginal question. Seems like your ranting again.
 
 
Terry T.

I was trying to reinforce the point if you can find out something about a lost one even 50 or 60 years later it can still have a GREAT comforting effect on their spouse and loved ones. You should never give up.
 
Because I promised not to be rude I will not will not answer you as I would have in the past. Or tell you what I think of your remark.
 
My Aunt was in tears to hear her beloved husband did not die along, that is a GREAT comfort to someone with a heart. If you have one or not I will again not go there. 

Sincerely yours,
PA.Dutchman

Son of T/Sgt. Ray A. Heilman, JR.
11 TH Field Artillery 1937-1940
Schofield Barracks
7 TH AAC 11 BGH 42 Sq.1940-45
Hickam Survivor 12/7/1941
AAC Armorer (P) 911
P.U.Citation1942

Dutchman:
 This is about what Roger Mansell posted..this is not about you.  Let get back to the orginal post, and not go off somewhere else.
 
Terry

Roger -
Have you read Book: The Fallen by Marc Landas ?
If so - Great
If not - let me know.
Mike