 At dawn on 15 October , the men were taken to a public cemetery near Shanghai , where they were shot by a Japanese firing squad . Following the bodies ' cremation , the ashes were taken to a mortuary . After the war ended , the men 's ashes were recovered and their letters found in a secret file of the War Ministry Building in Tokyo . In 1946 , Farrow was interred with honors at the Arlington National Cemetery , Section 12 , Grave 157 . 
