Through the fog of war though, asMustang of Fix Bayonetstold me several times, facts are lost, clouded by pressure of the times, sentiment and politics. As examples, Pfc. Rene Gagnon and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class John Bradley were misidentified as being in the iconic Joe Rosenthal photo....
$65.00. This volume of the "Daily Life Through History" series describes and analyzes the experiences of Americans in uniform during World War II with extensive examples drawn from interviews and other primary documents. Piehler draws upon many fine secondary sources as well as his own involvement...
While bullets, bayonets, and bombs would reap a harvest of dead and wounded, bacteria, viruses, and parasites endemic in the environment were far more successful in finding human targets. When the armies came to the tropical Pacific, they tried to control disease medically through drugs and by...
“The Harmonious Atmosphere of Nanking City Develops Enjoyably,” the article claimed that “the Imperial Army entered the city, put their bayonets into their sheaths, and stretched forth merciful hands in order to examine and heal,” giving the starving and sick masses in Nanking medical aid ...
The men were lined up and roped together in groups of about 100 by soldiers with bayonets fixed; those who had hats had them roughly torn off and thrown to the ground—and then by the lights of our headlights we watched them marched away to their doom.”12月14日晚,在一次全体成员大会上...
Many of the soldiers were “fierce and unreasonable” toward her, brandishing bayonets reddened with fresh bloodstains. Vautrin wrote that “in some cases they are defiant and look at me with a dagger in their eyes, and sometimes a dagger in their hands.” One time, when she tried to ...
The Japanese saturated victims in acid, impaled babies with bayonets, hung people by their tongues. One Japanese reporter who later investigated the Rape of Nanking learned that at least one Japanese soldier tore the heart and liver out of a Chinese victim to eat them. Even genitals, apparently...
Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai'i During World War II Justice Frank Murphy once wrote that two aspects of World War II could only be forgotten at our peril. One was the indiscriminate incarceration of Japanese aliens and Japanese Americans. The other was 4 years of martial law in...
Before they died under the thrusts of Japanese bayonets, their last words urged the young girl to do whatever the enemy soldiers wanted from her.另一个类似事件同样恐怖,一个15岁的小女孩亲眼目睹了自己全家被日军杀害的过程。日本士兵先是无端指控她的哥哥是中国军人,于是将他杀死;接着又因为她的嫂子...
As an administrator, a minister, an entertainer, a senior enlisted leader, a Canopus Sailor, and a Corregidor Marine, Chief Yeoman Theodore Brownell of Fort Smith, Arkansas, did a yeoman’s job in World War II. While forced to endure starvation, dehydration, exposure, slave labor, death ...