In the Battle of Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy, the German army was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, and in January 1944, a German messenger fled to the command post, weaving his way through gaps in the defensive line and past the bodies of dead German soldiers.

 　A German messenger escaped to the command post by threading the gaps in the defensive line and the bodies of dead German soldiers. After mid-January 1944, the German front in Ukraine also collapsed. A sign of the impending disaster in the Ukrainian region was the encirclement of ten German divisions near Korsun-Shevchenkivsky (Cherkasy) by the Soviet Red Army. From January 24 to February 16, 1944, in the Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy, the Soviet armies of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts of the Red Army launched an offensive to encircle and destroy the German Army's 6th Army Group's 58,000 German combatants in the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, south of Kiev in Ukraine.

　　On the Eastern Front of World War II, in January 1944, the German Army's Southern Army Group retreated to defensive positions along the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Some of the German troops formed trenches that stretched for about 100 km from the main positions. The Soviet Red Army trapped the German troops in a pocket near the Dnieper River. The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, lost about a third of its men, who either died in battle or were taken prisoner. After that, the weather turned bad and the ground became a thick quagmire, and the German army vehicles got stuck.

　　The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army in the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket, had about 45,000 of its original 58,000 soldiers escape, and about 36,262 of these managed to escape. In addition, about 4,161 wounded soldiers were evacuated by aircraft, and a total of about 40,423 people managed to escape. The German army suffered losses of around 19,000, and the Soviet Red Army suffered losses that exceeded those of the German army, with a total of 80,188 casualties in the three weeks of fighting.

During the Winter War of World War II, the bodies of Russian soldiers from the 44th Division of the Soviet Red Army lay dead from exposure to the cold on the roadside on January 20th, 1940, after the Battle of Suomussalmi by the Finnish Army.

　　After the Battle of Suomussalmi in Finland during World War II, the frozen bodies of Russian soldiers from the 44th Division of the Soviet Red Army lay by the roadside in the snow on January 20, 1940. During the Winter War, the Battle of Suomussalmi broke out between the Finnish and Soviet armies. The Battle of Suomussalmi took place from November 30, 1939 to January 8, 1940. It was a victory for the Finnish army against the superior Soviet forces in the bitter cold. The casualties of the Battle of Suomussalmi were as follows: of the 35,000 Soviet soldiers, more than 30,000 were killed in action and 2,000 were taken prisoner. The Finnish army suffered 2,000 casualties or went missing, and the number of Finnish soldiers killed in action or missing was around 2,000.

　　The only route for the 153rd Division of the Soviet Red Army to attack the northern part of Lake Ladoga was through the village of Suomussalmi. At Suomussalmi, the Soviet Red Army was completely caught off guard by a small-scale counterattack by the Finnish army. The Soviet troops, who had been driven out of the village, endured repeated attacks by the Finnish army for three days with considerable determination and courage, but in the end, they lost their fighting spirit and a large number of soldiers fled.

　　The Finnish artillery and bombing smashed the ice on the lake, drowning large numbers of Soviet soldiers who were fleeing across it. The Finnish army ambushed the Soviet 44th Division on the road. In the intense cold of -43℃, even the Soviet Red Army's guns froze and they were left poorly equipped. Once again, the Soviet army fought a reckless and clumsy battle and was destroyed. The Battle of Suomussalmi was a chance victory for the Finnish army and did not affect the course of the war.

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The Soviet invasion of Finland began on November 30th 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 13th 1940, three and a half months later. The Winter War gave rise to a false impression of the capabilities of the Soviet army, and this in turn encouraged Nazi Germany to attack the Soviet Union.

The bodies of Polish military officers massacred by the Soviet Red Army were exhumed from the mass grave in the Katyn Forest. The bodies were piled up in the mass grave in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in western Soviet Union.

   The bodies of Polish military officers massacred by the Soviet Red Army were exhumed from the mass grave in the Katyn Forest. A Polish military delegation witnessed the German military propaganda operation. The bodies were piled up in the mass grave in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in western Soviet Russia.

   The Germans discovered eight mass graves in the Katyn Forest on April 13th 1943 and accused the Soviet Red Army of the massacre. The bodies, including the remains of around 4,000 Polish military officers, were discovered in mass graves near Katyn. An investigation committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which had been convened by the Germans, established that the victims had been killed with German ammunition, but that the mass killings had taken place in early 1940, before the Germans had occupied the area of the Katyn Forest. The London-based Polish government in exile had long been demanding that the Soviet government report on what had happened to prisoners of war taken by Nazi Germany.

   The Polish prisoners of war taken from eastern Poland by the Soviet Red Army in 1939 included around 8,000 officers, 6,000 policemen and 8,000 other intellectuals. The Soviet secret police (NKVD) murdered Polish prisoners of war in April and May 1940. The executions by the NKVD were carried out in complete secrecy, only at night or at dawn. The prisoners were taken to a basement, where they were killed in solitary, silent rooms. Those who resisted were tied up and shot in the back of the head.

   A fierce debate broke out, and relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government in exile broke down. Stalin established the Polish National Committee in Moscow, and decided to establish a Polish army with its cooperation. Nazi propaganda used the Katyn massacre to condemn the fate of Soviet prisoners of war. In 1992, the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and NKVD were responsible for the massacre and its cover-up. It suggested that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In November 2010, the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the executions of Polish officers and others in Katyn Forest.

The mother wept when she saw the body of her 15-year-old Ukrainian son, who had been killed in a Russian missile attack, on the following day, October 31, 2014. Three people were killed and more than 30 were injured on the night of October 30.

　　The mother wept when she saw the body of her 15-year-old Ukrainian son, who had been killed in a Russian missile attack, on the following day, October 31, 2014. A Ukrainian police officer stood by her side and comforted the weeping mother. In the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, there was shelling of buildings by Russia, and according to local authorities, at least three people were killed and more than 30 people were injured on the night of October 30, 2024.

　According to Ukrainian authorities, a guided bomb, a powerful weapon widely used by the Russian military, hit a building in the city of Kharkiv and destroyed several floors of the building. The prosecutor's office announced that three people had died and 35 had been injured. The initial death toll included one child, but on October 31 rescue workers found the bodies of two more boys, aged 12 and 15. Kharkiv is often targeted by Russian bombing raids and is less than 30km from the Russian border.

　　The body of the 15-year-old boy was first removed from the rubble of the destroyed 9-story apartment building. The rescue team was trying to remove the body of another 12-year-old boy who lived on the first floor of the building with his grandfather and grandmother, and the rescue workers were clearing away the rubble of the destroyed apartment building. The 12-year-old boy had a head injury and fracture, and despite pulling him out from under the rubble, he could not be saved. On the night of October 30, Russian troops attacked a multi-storey building in the Saltyvskyi district of Kharkiv, partially destroying one of the entrances. The number of injured people, including children, reached 36. 

Warning: Ukrainian law enforcement officers comfort a woman crying over the body of her 15-year-old son following a missile attack in Kharkiv on Thursday.(AFP-JIJI)

On February 19, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War of World War II, two American marines became the first casualties to fall and die from Japanese fire.

　

　On February 19, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War of World War II, two American marines who had fallen victim to Japanese fire became the first casualties when the American army began its assault on the Japanese volcanic island of Iwo Jima. remained dead on Iwo Jima. On March 30th 1945, American marines prepared a joint cemetery at the Third and Fourth Marine Divisions' cemetery for their fallen American comrades killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima. American marines dug graves at the 5th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima to bury the bodies of their fallen comrades.

　　The Japanese soldiers put up a fierce fight, but the American marines eventually secured the entire island on March 26, 1945, in one of the bloodiest battles of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Of the 74,000 US Marines who landed, more than a third were killed or wounded. From February 19 to March 26, in addition to the approximately 6,800 American soldiers who died in battle, nearly 20,000 Japanese soldiers also died in battle.

　　In the battle that lasted for over a month until the safety of Iwo Jima was declared on March 26, nearly 6,800 Americans died, and the Japanese soldiers fighting on Iwo Jima were virtually wiped out. The American dead were either temporarily buried on Iwo Jima or transferred to ships offshore. The American soldiers whose bodies were confirmed were eventually all repatriated to the United States.

　　Approximately 22,000 Japanese soldiers died in the horrific Battle of Iwo Jima, and of these, approximately 12,000 were not identified or recovered. Some of the Japanese soldiers were trapped in underground caves, and the American military engineers sealed the entrances with sandbag bombs, set fire to the caves with tanks and flamethrowers, and killed the occupants by burning them to death or depriving them of oxygen, so the caves became graveyards. After the Battle of Iwo Jima, the thousands of Japanese bodies were buried in a mass grave marked only on the map by the American military.

Zhao Yonghua was caught up in the Yanbian Cultural Revolution and was publicly executed as a murderer on false charges. The crowd surrounded him, subdued him, and he fell on his back with a bleeding head from a gunshot wound.

　　Zhao Yonghua was involved in the Yanbian Cultural Revolution and was publicly executed as a murderer due to a false charge. He was surrounded by a large crowd of people, held down, and shot in the head. Zhao Yonghua's body bled from the front of his head and he collapsed face-up on the grassland. About 402,000 cases of wrongful conviction occurred throughout China.

　　The Cultural Revolution, which shook China from May 1966, also left deep scars on the society of the Yanbian Korean people in the remote border region from August 1966. It was a difficult time when their own ethnicity was denied and they were oppressed. At the behest of Madame Jiang Qing, the conflict between the Han and Korean peoples was encouraged, and it developed into a carefully orchestrated plan to eliminate the ethnic group, even to the point of killing each other. The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, located along the Tumen River in Jilin Province, China, was granted autonomy by the Chinese government in 1952 for the Korean people, one of China's 55 ethnic minorities.

Mao Yuanxin was the son of Mao Zedong's younger brother, Mao Zemin. He was born in Xinjiang in 1941, and when he was two years old, his father Mao Zemin was killed by ethnic minority forces. After that, Mao Zedong took care of Mao Yuanxin as if he were his own son. Mao Yuanxin attended Tsinghua University in Beijing and graduated from the Harbin Military Engineering Institute in 1964. As soon as the Cultural Revolution began, he took his followers with him and went to Yanbian at the end of October 1966.

　　Mao Yuanxin received instructions directly from Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing. Mao Yuanxin caused ethnic conflict in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, resulting in many casualties. Mao Yuanxin was known as the “Grand Old Man of the Northeast” and boasted great power. After the death of Mao Zedong, he was arrested along with the Gang of Four. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and 4 years of political disqualification. He was released in 1993 after serving his sentence.

　　For over a decade, the Korean photographer Ryu Eung-gye excavated the history of migration and settlement of the Korean people in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and other parts of northeastern China. He met a Korean photographer who had documented the Yanbian Cultural Revolution, and obtained a huge amount of film. He published the painful “Yanbian Cultural Revolution”, which vividly recreates a bygone era. The fact that the Cultural Revolution was experienced by the Korean minority in China has not yet been made public.

 

At an airport near Charikar in Afghanistan, the bodies of Afghans who had been killed by Taliban shelling were surrounded by Northern Alliance Afghan soldiers, who stared at the shell holes.

　　At an airport near Charikar in Afghanistan, the bodies of Afghans who had been killed by Taliban shelling were surrounded by Northern Alliance Afghan soldiers, who stared at the shell holes. They were carrying out the dead and wounded from the buildings that had been destroyed by Taliban attacks.

　　At the time of the Afghan conflict, there was very little news coverage of the situation in Afghanistan. Chris Steele-Perkins of the photo agency Magnum began working in Afghanistan in 1994 with the aid of Doctors Without Borders. Over the course of five years from 1994 to 1998, he took four trips to Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, and left behind a collection of valuable black-and-white photographs. The photos that captured everyday life in Afghanistan from close up are rare. For over 50 years, Magnum has continued to provide battlefield photos that have gone down in history. However, in those 50 years, there has not been a single year without the outbreak of war.

　　Tanks and soldiers moved back and forth across the devastated Afghan land. The dead and the injured were everywhere. The photographs carefully symbolize the everyday scenes of rubble amid the tension of the conflict. They ask us what peace is and what it means to be isolated from the world. Between 2007 and 2021, an estimated 73,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers were killed, as well as tens of thousands of Taliban fighters.Approximately 47,000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan civil war, and

the Taliban of Afghanistan is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun force that was established in the early 1990s. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and the government it supported collapsed in 1992. After that, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to October 2001. After the Taliban came to power, citizens were abandoned and thrown out into the cold streets, where they either begged, scavenged for garbage, or died. In orphanages, women were abused by Taliban soldiers after being refused permission to work. After the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the US military shot down the Taliban, which supported the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, in October 2001. However, the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021. 

At the end of the Pacific War, Japanese orphans who had lost or been abandoned by their parents during the Battle of Okinawa on August 4th, 1945, shared the meager rations they had been given at the Koza Orphanage, an orphanage in the central part of Okinawa Island that had been set up by the American military.

    At the end of the Pacific War, Japanese orphans who had lost their parents or been abandoned during the Battle of Okinawa on August 4th 1945 shared the meager rations they had been given at the Koza Orphanage, an orphanage in the center of Okinawa Island that had been set up by the American military. The Koza Orphanage was filled with naked, emaciated orphans.

   After the US forces landed on Okinawa on April 1st, they began to build shelters for the orphans left behind on the battlefield, and set up 11 orphanages and 9 old people's homes in each of the refugee camps. It is thought that there were at least 1000 orphans, but the exact number is not known. The women among the evacuees looked after them as nursery school teachers, but among the younger children who did not have much strength, there were a succession of deaths from malnutrition. The US military set up a maximum of 14 orphanages on the main island of Okinawa. Many children died from malnutrition, but the overall picture was unclear. As the fighting in southern Okinawa came to an end in late June, the wounded and residents were brought in from the south one after another, and many children were among them. The Koza Orphanage was established within the Koza Camp. The Koza Orphanage was open from June 1945 to November 1949, a total of four years and five months, and it is recorded that the number of people accommodated exceeded 600 as of July 1945.

   After April 1945, the American military government set up orphanages in evacuation areas all over Okinawa Island as a stopgap measure for the orphans wandering the battlefields. The orphanages were simple structures made from private houses and tents. The Himeyuri Students, educators, karate practitioners and “comfort women” looked after the orphans. There are very few documents relating to the orphanages of the time, so the full picture is not clear. Many children died of exhaustion and weakness at the Koza Orphanage and the Tai Orphanage in the former Haneji Village (now Nago City). The lives and human rights of the orphans were not protected.

    The Battle of Okinawa, which centered on the Okinawa Islands, lasted for 82 days from April 1 to June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War, due to the intensity of the fighting, the kamikaze suicide attacks by the Japanese garrison, and the huge number of Allied warships and armored vehicles that landed in Okinawa . According to the 1948 National Orphan Survey, there were 120,000 war orphans in Japan. According to a 1950s survey by the Ryukyu Government, there were approximately 3,000 orphans in Okinawa. The figures vary depending on the survey, and it is thought that the actual number is much higher.

In March 1982, the bodies of guerrilla fighters killed in a gun battle by soldiers of the El Salvadoran government army in the slum of San Antonio Abad in the capital city of San Salvador were loaded onto a truck.

　　In March 1982, a gun battle broke out in the slum of San Antonio Abad on the outskirts of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. Around 15 people were killed on both sides, the government forces and the guerrillas. El Salvadoran government soldiers loaded the bodies of the guerrillas they had killed in the shootout onto a truck. The El Salvadoran government soldiers threw the bodies of the guerrillas they had killed into the truck carelessly, as if they were just a load. The soldiers who pulled up the bodies were holding machetes in their hands and were laughing. In the alley where the soldiers had fired their guns, they were dragging the bodies of the guerrillas they had killed.

　　In San Antonio Abad, at the end of an alley, there was the body of a young female guerrilla who had been killed by having a knife plunged into her chest, and the puddle of blood next to her was red. Government soldiers kicked in the doors of private houses and dragged out a married couple, assaulting and interrogating them. The slum of San Antonio Abad, on the outskirts of the capital San Salvador, became a base for guerrillas and was caught up in the civil war with the government army.

　In 1980, five left-wing groups that had been engaged in guerrilla warfare formed the Farandula Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). In 1981, the FMLN launched an offensive, but the Salvadoran government army, which was backed by the United States support, the El Salvadoran government army used overwhelming military force to sweep out the guerrillas. During the 10-year civil war, around 500,000 people lost their homes and jobs, and around 70,000 people died. A far-right assassination squad carried out a campaign of terror, massacring reformists. During the 12-year civil war that ran from October 15, 1979 to January 16, 1992, around 500,000 people lost their homes and jobs, and around 70,000 people died. The far-right assassination squad carried out a campaign of terror, massacring the reformists. Around 10,360 government troops died, and between 12,274 and 20,000 FMLN troops died, while around 65,161 civilians died. Approximately 550,000 people were displaced within the country, and approximately 500,000 became refugees abroad. The Salvadoran Civil War ended with the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Agreement on January 16, 1992. This treaty established peace between the Salvadoran government and the FMLN, and the FMLN participated in presidential elections as a political party from 1994.

Colonel John R. Hall, surgeon of the 10th Army, explained the effects of the atomic bomb on a woman who had burns on her face to the Far Eastern Advisory Commission on January 26, 1946.

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On July 3, 2024, a funeral was held at the Nur Shams refugee camp on the West Bank of the Jordan River near Tulkarm, during the Israel-Palestine War. On July 3, four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike.

　　On July 3rd 2024, a funeral was held at the Nur Shams refugee camp on the West Bank of the Jordan River near Tulkarm, in the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict was held. On July 3rd, four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike. The four were wrapped in the flag of Islamic Jihad, and mourners offered prayers at their bodies. The Israeli military announced that its bombers had bombed an armed group that had planted explosives in the refugee camp.

　The Israeli military has approved the largest land expropriation in the West Bank in more than 30 years, a settlement watchdog group said on July 3, 2024. The expansion of Israeli occupation in the West Bank reflected the strong influence of Jewish settlers on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. It has seized control of the development of settlements, strengthened Israel's control over the territory, and accelerated its expansionist policy by preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.

　　The West Bank has long been the scene of violence by settlers, who have driven Palestinian communities out of the area. The violence has increased sharply since the outbreak of the Hamas offensive in Gaza on October 7, 2023.The UN says that since October, settlers have carried out more than 1,000 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. The three million Palestinians living in the West Bank are under Israeli military rule.

　　By declaring the occupied West Bank to be state land, the Israeli government leased the land to Israelis and prohibited Palestinians from owning land individually. The land expropriation in 2024 was continuous, and it connected two existing settlements to form a solid barrier near the border with Jordan. Before this land was declared state-owned, the Israeli military had declared it a closed area.

 

Mourners pray over the bodies wrapped with Islamic Jihad flags, of four Palestinians who were killed by an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday, during their funeral near Tulkarem on July 3, 2024. | (Nasser Nasser/AP)

On July 24th 1944, the Soviet army liberated Majdanek concentration camp on the Eastern Front of World War II. After that, the grounds of Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland were scattered with human bones and skulls of the dead.

　On July 24th 1944, the Soviet army liberated Majdanek concentration camp on the Eastern Front of World War II. After that, the grounds of Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland were scattered with human bones and skulls of the dead. It became the second largest death camp in Poland after Auschwitz

　　In the spring of 1944, the Nazi SS evacuated most of the prisoners to a further concentration camp to the west of Majdanek. In late July 1944, as the Soviet army approached Lublin, the remaining German staff of the camp abandoned Majdanek without completely dismantling it. The Soviet army first arrived at Majdanek on the night of July 22-23, and occupied Lublin on July 24. Majdanek, which was captured almost intact, was the first major concentration camp to be liberated. The Soviet authorities invited journalists to inspect the camp and evidence of the horrors that had taken place there.

　　In the Majdanek concentration camp, located on the outskirts of Lublin in German-occupied Poland, around 80,000 prisoners from all over Europe died. Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, the disabled and political dissidents were killed in the gas chambers. Others died from gunshot wounds, beatings, fire, starvation, or forced labor. The Soviet army liberated the camp on July 24, 1944, near the border between what is now Ukraine and Belarus. In the four years it was in operation, nearly half a million prisoners were sent there. It is estimated that 360,000 people died there from starvation, disease, execution by firing squad or in gas chambers. In 2005, the official estimate was 78,000 victims (59,000 of whom were Jews). 

On the night of July 21, 1952, the French military outpost of Cap Saint-Jacques in Vietnam was attacked, killing eight French non-commissioned officers and officers, six French children, two French women, and four Vietnamese children.

　　On the night of July 21st 1952, the French military outpost of Cap Saint Jacques in Vietnam was attacked, killing eight French non-commissioned officers and officers, six French children, two French women, and four Vietnamese children. At a conference held from July 8th to July 10th in front of Bao Dai in Vietnam, French General Sarin reiterated that the military situation in Vietnam was satisfactory and said that he wanted to accelerate the “Vietnamization” of the French military. However, despite the bad weather, the French army continued its mopping-up operations, and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Democratic Republic) continued its acts of terrorism. The First Indochina War was fought between France and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Democratic Republic) and its allies from December 19, 1946 to July 21, 1954.

　　The Vietminh assassinated between 100,000 and 150,000 of the 400,000 total civilian deaths. Vietminh fighters carried out terrorist attacks as a systematic practice throughout the conflict, often targeting European and Eurasian civilians. One of the worst attacks on Europeans was the massacre of 20 unarmed people, including eight officers on sick leave, six children, four Vietnamese servants and two women, at the military hospital in Cap Saint-Jacques on July 21, 1952, when Vietminh militants used grenades, stun guns and machetes. In Viet Minh prisoner of war camps, many prisoners of the French Union Forces and the National Liberation Army of Vietnam died as a result of torture.

　　During the First Indochina War, there were many cases of massacres and rapes of Vietnamese civilians by French soldiers. After the French troops returned to Vietnam in August 1945, there were incidents of robbery and murder in Saigon. In the north of Vietnam, after the defeat of the Vietminh in 1948, Vietnamese women were raped by French soldiers in areas such as Bao Ha, Bao Yen County and Phu Lu. In June 1948, 400 Vietnamese soldiers who had been trained by the French army defected to the Vietminh. The French army killed many Vietnamese civilians as the Vietminh army hid in civilian areas. One of the largest massacres by the French army was the My Trac Massacre on November 29, 1947, in which French soldiers killed more than 200 women and children.

The bodies of Japanese soldiers who died in the Battle of Okinawa at the end of the Pacific War were left unburied with no one to mourn for them. The fighting in the Battle of Okinawa was intense, and it usually took place at close range.

　　The bodies of Japanese soldiers who died in the Battle of Okinawa at the end of the Pacific War were left unburied with no one to mourn for them. (US Army Signal Corps, National Archives and Records Administration, NARA-2) The back-and-forth artillery battles between the American and Japanese forces shook Okinawa day and night. The 10th U.S. Army fired 1.1 million rounds of 105mm howitzers during the battle, the largest artillery barrage of the war. The fighting in the Battle of Okinawa was intense and usually took place at close range. The U.S. and Japanese forces engaged on the slopes of many hills, and fought in caves, trenches, foxholes, pillboxes, etc. From April 1 to June 22, 1945, the US military waged a merciless battle in the Battle of Okinawa to control approximately 1,660 square kilometers of the Ryukyu Islands, which are located just 550 kilometers from mainland Japan.

　　On April 1st 1945, the US 10th Army invaded Okinawa, and the last amphibious landing operation of the Pacific War was carried out. The US 10th Army, which consisted of four US Army divisions and three US Marine Corps divisions, carried out Operation Iceberg in order to occupy the main island of Okinawa in preparation for an invasion of the Japanese mainland. American soldiers and marines fought for 82 days, battling the Imperial Japanese Army, and on the way they learned of the end of the European front on May 8th 1945, Victory in Europe Day (VE Day). The Americans finally captured Okinawa on June 22nd 1945, and almost completely destroyed the remaining Japanese resistance forces.

　　The Battle of Okinawa was one of the most intense battles of the Pacific War. It was called the “typhoon of steel” in English and “tetsu no ame (steel rain)” or “tetsu no bōfū (steel storm)” in Japanese. The nickname symbolized the intensity of the fighting, the ferocity of the Japanese kamikaze attacks, and the huge number of Allied warships and armored vehicles that attacked Okinawa Island.

　　The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War, resulting in the deaths or injuries of more than 50,000 Allied troops, 84,166 to 117,000 Japanese troops, and approximately 160,000 Japanese civilians, including members of the conscripted defense force who were wearing Japanese military uniforms. In the Battle of Okinawa, 7,374 American soldiers were killed and approximately 31,807 were wounded.Approximately 149,425 Okinawans died, committed suicide, or went missing, accounting for about half of the pre-war population of 300,000. The number of Japanese soldiers who died in the Battle of Okinawa was estimated at 94,208, with approximately 94,000 Okinawans and 12,520 Americans also killed.

On December 23, 1911, a 26-year-old black man named Frank Richardson was accused of murdering two white men in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was executed in a brutal lynching at the county jail, with many people present.

　　On December 23, 1911, Frank Richardson, a 26-year-old black man, was accused of murdering two white men in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and became the victim of a cruel punishment, being killed by lynching without due legal process. He was arrested and hanged in Alabama. Richardson was born in 1884 in Northport, Tuscaloosa, and worked as a farmer. He was married to Charlotte Richardson for six years, and they both lived in Club Road, Northport, Tuscaloosa.

　The first execution in Tuscaloosa County in eight years was carried out, and the black man Richardson was hanged for murder. He was hanged and pronounced dead by a doctor 17 minutes later. The execution took place at the county jail and was witnessed by many people. Between 1877 and 1950, there were 4,400 lynchings of black people in 800 counties in the United States, and in most cases the perpetrators were not prosecuted.

　　In Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, a few weeks earlier, a white man had been shot dead after a fight broke out when a black man refused to lend his saddle to a white man. The black man who had killed the white man fled into the woods armed with a Winchester rifle. A police force was organized and hounds were deployed to track down the fugitive. Shots were exchanged and the leader of the posse, Brown Horton, was fatally wounded. Later, the black man Richardson was captured. The first person to be killed was a former deputy sheriff named Tom Cooper. After Richardson was captured, he was extradited to Birmingham to prevent a lynching. After Richardson was arraigned, he was tried and convicted solely for the murder of Horton. The public was very excited about the double murder.

 At the trial, the public was against Richardson, but the witnesses testified that Richardson was a quiet person until he had a dispute with Cooper. A young law firm was appointed by the court to represent Richardson. The jury returned a verdict of first-degree murder, and Richardson's execution date was set for Friday, December 22. Richardson, a black man on death row, received a lot of sympathy. His good nature before he went out of control and the circumstances of his first murder were also strongly appealed for a reduction in sentence to life imprisonment.