General Masahuro Homma
Before the Firing Squad

"General Homma accepted full responsibility for the Battan Death March from Mariveles to the Lingayen Valey in which 17,200 men died." ...[His] execution was carried out secretly... Homma stood stiffly before a post, eight inches square and six feet in height, and faced the firing squad composed of U.S. officers and enlisted men."