 He was severely beaten and malnourished while three of the crew were executed by a firing squad, and another died of slow starvation.DeShazer's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Emperor Hirohito.As the war came to an end, on 20 August 1945, DeShazer and the others in the camp at Beijing (Peiping), China were finally released when American soldiers parachuted into the camp.