11/4/26

Did Netaji Die in the 1945 Taihoku Plane Crash? The Evidence

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was declared dead in a plane crash at Taihoku (Taipei), Taiwan on 18 August 1945. No Japanese, British or Indian government ever filed a death record.

In 2005 the Mukherjee Commission found Taiwan's own cremation register for that week. There is no entry for Bose. There is one for a Japanese soldier, Ichiro Okura.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Did Netaji die in the crash?

  • 00:55 The disappearance

  • 06:05 A 50-year investigation

  • 09:20 The fight for truth

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The Vanishing of Subhas Chandra Bose, with full sources.

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