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Q. State your name, rank, serial number, permanent home address, and any other pertinent information concerning yourself.
A. My name is Albert Marion CONERLY. I am a private first class, U.S.M.C., serial number 280404. My permanent home address is 2127 Bailey Avenue. Jackson, Mississippi. I have had ten years of schooling and five years and ten months service in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Q. While you were imprisoned in the Funatsu Prison Camp in Japan did you witness any atrocities or war crimes which you feel should be reported.
A. Yes. I did. I was in this prison from September 1944 to September 1945. During that time I saw PFC MANN, U.S. Army, beaten to death with rifles, clubs, and bayonets. Five or six of the guards took turns beating this man from from seven to eight days. PFC MANN went crazy three days before he died. [even though this was late July, the temperatures were below freezing at night- see Churchill affidavit].Of these five or six men who engaged in this beating, I remember the following names: HORIE, TANAKA, and Lieutenant FUSHIMA, who was in charge and who witnesses this atrocity.

I can recall nothing further concerning this incident which would be of value to the War Crimes Office, and I do not have any other information, favorable or unfavorable, which I consider of sufficient importance to report.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
(State Seal)
Country of Alameda

I, Albert Marion CONERLY, of lawful age, being duly sworn on oath, state that I have read the foregoing transcription of my interrogation, consisting of two pages, including this and the title page, and that all answers contained therein are tru to the best of my knowledge and belief.
/S/ Albert Marion Conerly

Subscribed and sworn to before me this Third day of October, 1945, at Oakland, California.
/S/ H.B. Kehoe
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
(State Seal)
Country of Alameda

I, Harold B. KEHOE, Lieutenant, U.S.N.R., certify that Albert Marion CONERLY, private first class, U.S.M.C., serial No. 280404, personally appeared before me on the Third day of October, 1945, and testified concerning war crimes; and that the foregoing is an accurate transcription of the answers given by him to the several questions set forth.
Place: Oakland, California
Date: 3 October 1945
/S/ H B Kehoe
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Albert Conerly (1921)