Jack Mallory, a US Navy dental prosthetics specialist, didn’t return home after WW2 ended. Rather, he was assigned to the 361st Station Hospital in Tokyo, which also serviced Sugamo Prison.
Several high-ranking Japanese officials were imprisoned at Sugamo, awaiting trial for war crimes; including Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, the so-called “architect of the War in the Pacific.”
Tojo, who was in his sixties, was found to be suffering from advanced tooth decay and requested dentures so that he could speak at his trial.
Jack Mallory and his roommate, George Foster, were given the task of making the dentures, and as an ultimate fuck you, they inscribed “Remember Pearl Harbor” on the dentures in Morse Code.
The young officers never received any form of reprimand for his prank, buy were ordered to remove it.
Jack Mallory passed away in 2013, but his legendary prank found its way into his obituary, described only as a “dental prank” on the mastermind behind the attack of Pearl Harbor.
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