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An Australian soldier driving Japanese Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi to the Wom Airstrip, New Guinea for the formal New Guinea surrender ceremony, 13 Sep 1945
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Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi commanded the Japanese forces on New Guinea from November 1942 until the end of the Second World War. He took command of the Eighteenth Army after the death of Lieutenant General Tomitaro Horii on 23 November 1942, and inherited an army that was already in retreat.…
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Anna war crime : 12 August 1944: The Massacre of St. Anna di Stazzema.
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Sant’Anna di Stazzema is a locality in the province of Lucca, in Tuscany, sadly known for being the site of one of the worst na#ifascist massacre in Western Europe during the Second World War. Introduction note:The na#i/na#ifascist reprisals in Italy are less known to English-speaking readers than Oradour sur Glane’s,…
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Lieutenant William Calley was the officer in charge of Charlie Company
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Lieutenant William Calley was the officer in charge of Charlie Company, a unit of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Americal Division, during the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. The My Lai massacre was a mass murder of hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, mostly women,…
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Masaharu Homma
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April 3rd 1946Been found guilty of war crimes related to the treatment of prisoners of War Japanese General Homma Masaharu was executed. Masaharu had been the Japanese Commander that had ordered the American prisoners captured in the Philippines to undergo what became known as the Bataan Death March. Masaharu Homma (Honma…
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Four Russian soldiers have been arrested and charged with the torture and murder of Russell Bentley, a 64-year-old U.S. citizen who fought alongside pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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Bentley, originally from Dallas, Texas, joined pro-Russian separatists in 2014 to fight against Ukrainian forces and became a Russian citizen in 2021. He went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was later found dead. The Russian Investigative Committee, responsible for probing major crimes, identified the suspects…
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Just so we’re clear, the Pacific theater of World War II fucking sucked.
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The Allies faced a tenacious enemy who refused to give up and didn’t subscribe to the Geneva Conventions; they considered anyone who wasn’t Japanese a member of an inferior race and treated them as such. Add in nasty jungle diseases and it was a whole lot of not fun. The…
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On this day in history, 4 December 1943, the U.S. conducts airstrikes against Kwajalein Atoll in preparation for the invasion of the Marshall Islands.
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Although the invasion itself was not set to start until 31 January of 1944, the pre-invasion strikes helped soften the Japanese resistance on the islands. The planning and execution of the Marshalls campaign helped to restore faith in the American military planning capabilities after operations such as Tarawa, nicknamed “Bloody…
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This picture shows four veterans of four different American wars. The picture was taken in the mid 1940s.
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In the top left is Pearl Perry Johnson, a veteran of the Second World War.Next to him stands Hilyeard H. Young, a veteran of the First World War.In the bottom left sits Oscar P. Ruth, a veteran of the Spanish-American War.And next to him sits Andrew Jackson Everist, a veteran…
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When reviewing the Asia/Pacific conflict during World War II, it is important to put it in the context of the greater global war.
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While involving over 50 countries and as many colonies and territories, the conduct of World War II essentially boiled down to a contest between six major powers divided evenly into two competing coalitions. For the Allies, this consisted of the British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States. Confronting…
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WWII FALLEN HEROES – Three Herr brothers from Day County, South Dakota.
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The US 12 Westbound bridge over the railroad three miles west of Groton, South Dakota, was dedicated to RM2 Ordien Herr, LT LeRoy Herr, and RM2 Eugene L. Herr on Aug. 5, 2024.Navy RM2 Eugene Le Mont Herr – Eugene was first reported as missing in action when he was…