-
Coral Saber. Germany, circa 1560. The coral saber is a pure art collection piece with no particular practical function; it was certainly never actually used as a weapon.
•
The blade is formed by human art, the handle by the power of nature, so that here the work of man and nature are ideally combined. The key to the object’s meaning is provided by the material coral and its mythical connection with the figure of Jupiter’s son Perseus. In…
-
Masaharu Homma
•
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…
-
Hitoshi Imamura
•
Hitoshi Imamura was a Japanese general who, at the end of World War II, was prosecuted for war crimes committed by soldiers under his command against Allied prisoners in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, a relatively mild punishment compared to other…
-
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.
•
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…
-
BRUTAL MILITARY TRAINING IN JAPANESE ARMED FORCES AND WAR CRIMES
•
If the influence of deeply rooted negative racial beliefs is added to the brutality involved in sending soldiers destined to kill each other on a massive scale, the frame of conventions and rules of warfare is far more likely to be intentionally broken. on both sides.In the 1930s Japanese soldiers…
-
![“[Charles Evans] Hughes waged a lackluster campaign [in 1916] — TR called him ‘Wilson with whiskers’ — but he remained the overwhelming favorite.](https://wohistorynlocalgist.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1000209921-150x150.jpg)
“[Charles Evans] Hughes waged a lackluster campaign [in 1916] — TR called him ‘Wilson with whiskers’ — but he remained the overwhelming favorite.
•
New York bookmakers quoted the final odds at 5 to 3. On election night, FDR attended a large dinner given by Henry Morgenthau, Sr., for party bigwigs at New York’s Biltmore Hotel. . . . [The] politicians hoped against hope the bookies had it wrong. Gloom settled in quickly. Early…
-
“When Congress declared war on April 6, 1917, the United States was a second-class military power.
•
The Army, relegated to showing the flag in Latin America and pursuing Mexican banditti, consisted of 108,399 men, a third of whom were on garrison duty in Panama, Hawaii, and the Philippines. The various state militias, recently formed into a National Guard, added but another 200,000, and there was no…
-
Vietnam War History: The Battle of Loc Ninh
•
On this day, November 9, in 1967, the fierce ten-day battle for the Loc Ninh Special Forces Camp came to an end. Just miles from the Cambodian border, the camp was a strategic stronghold in South Vietnam, defended by U.S. Army Special Forces and South Vietnamese irregular forces. On October…
-
Battle of the Bulge
•
During the Battle of the Bulge, which took place from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945, American soldiers faced one of the most intense and brutal engagements of World War II in the harsh winter conditions of the Ardennes Forest. As German forces launched a surprise counteroffensive, the American…
-
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.
•
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…