Japs get light sentences of fliers deaths Shanghai, -- convicted of executing three Doolittle raiders of Tokyo, four Japanese army officers were let off with prison terms of five and nine years at Hard Labor, after a U.S. Military commission acknowledged that they merely carried out orders from "Higher Up," shown in Shanghai's ward road jail, the four are : (Left to Right) Capt. Tatsuta Sotojiro, former commander of the Kiangwan Military prison and director of the firing squad in the execution : Lt. Ryuhei Okada, a member of a Jap Court Martial Board; Capt Yusei Wako, a member of the court Martial Board who had had previous legal training : And Lt. Gen Shigeru Sahjada, former commanding general of the Japanese 13th expeditionary army in China. Captain Wako received a nine-year sentence, while the other three received five-year sentences. April 15, 1946. (Photo by Harlow M. Church, Acme).